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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 ...
Approximately 780,000 registered citizens of Afghanistan are temporarily residing in Iran under the care and protection of the UNHCR. [ 57 ] [ 73 ] [ 74 ] According to Afghanistan's Ministry of Refugees , the total number of Afghans in Iran is around 3 million. [ 75 ]
According to Afghanistan's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are approximately 3 million Afghan citizens in Iran as of January 2023, [3] [4] [5] most of whom were born and raised in Iran during the last four decades. [6] [7] They are under the care and protection of the ...
The Torbat-e Jam camp, also called Mehmanshahr, [1] is an Afghan refugee camp (officially termed guest city) in eastern Iran, Torbat-e Jam established around 1998, with a capacity of 10,000 people. The camp, as of 2016, housed 4,000 Afghan refugees on a 100-hectare compound of permanent brick housing, schools and clinics, and a mosque.
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).
Iran is a signatory to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. UNHCR found several positive aspects in the conduct of the Islamic republic with regards to ethnic minorities, positively citing its agreement to absorb Afghan refugees and participation from mixed ethnicities.
There is a large population of Iraqis in Iran, including Iranian citizens of Iraqi descent and Iraqi citizens of Iranian descent. According to the 2001 Iran census, there were roughly 203,000 Iraqis living in Iran; [ 2 ] a UNHCR report counts 204,000 Iraqis living in Iran. [ 3 ]
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.