UNHCR's role in Central Europe

UNHCR Regional Representation for Central Europe is based in Budapest, and covers 7 countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

UNHCR's role in this region is to:

• Promote and ensure effective access to the territory and asylum procedures
• Promote and support reception conditions in line with international standards
• Promote and support fair and efficient protection procedures
• Promote and support and implementation of durable solutions

Protecting refugees in Central Europe

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NEW! 2009 Edition of Protecting Refugees and the Role of UNHCR available in English and Czech

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Protecting Refugees and the role of UNHCR

Media and Refugees

UNHCR is interested in good refugee reporting and we stand ready to assist the media. Bulgarian (pdf) English (pdf) Czech (pdf) Hungarian (pdf) Polish (pdf) Romanian (pdf) Slovak (pdf) Slovene (pdf)