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Afghan children at Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Esfahan, Iran. (2007) As of October 2020, there are 780,000 registered Afghan refugees and asylum seekers temporarily residing in Iran under the care and protection of the UNHCR. [26] [32] [47] [48] The majority of them were born in Iran during the last four decades but are still considered citizens of ...
The UNHCR's Mid-Year Trends report of June 2015 (based on information for mid-2015 or latest available information up to that date) reported an "unprecedented" 57,959,702 individuals falling under its mandate (for reference, on 1 January 2007, 21,018,589 people – or less than half of the number in 2015 – fell under the mandate of the UNHCR).
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Many were born in Iran over the last 30 years but were unable to gain citizenship due to Iranian immigration laws. The refugees include Hazaras, Tajiks, Qizilbash, Pashtuns, and other ethnic groups of Afghanistan. [35] One UNHCR paper claims that nearly half the documented refugees are Hazara, a primarily Shi'a group. [36]
When Iranian queer people flee persecution in Iran, they often go to Turkey. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees interviews these refugees and determines if their asylum claim is valid. If they are granted asylum status, the UNHCR finds a new country for each individual based on their profile.
The World Refugee Survey by US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants estimate the number of refugees in India at 456,000. The number of refugees who have registered with UNHCR is however around 47,000. [16] Tibet - 110,098 [17] Sri Lanka (Tamil Eelam) - 64,208; Arakan - 40,000+ Afghanistan - 10,196 Somalia - 465 Iraq - 287 Palestine - 79 Iran - 72
Iran has produced a wide range of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer, diabetes, infection and depression. [39] Iran is the first country in the East Mediterranean region which has the technical and scientific capability to export vaccines to various world countries. [40] Iran will gain self-sufficiency in vaccine production by 2014. [41]
ReliefWeb was founded in October 1996 and is administered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).The project began under the US Department of State, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, which had noticed during the Rwanda crisis how poorly critical operational information was shared between NGOs, UN Agencies and Governments.