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UNHCR Central Asia Key Terms Guide

  • Document source:
    UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Date:
    2025
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR Central Asia Key Terms Guide, 2025, https://www.refworld.org/reference/tools/unhcr/2025/149584 [accessed 02 April 2026]
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UNHCR Central Asia Key Terms

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This guide is intended to support journalists, students, NGOs, lawyers and other partners communicating about forced displacement and statelessness in Central Asian languages to ensure accurate and consistent terminology use aligned with UNHCR standards.

Title
UNHCR Central Asia Key Terms Guide
Document source
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date
2025
Document type
Tools
Collection
Research & Reports
Legal instruments
1951 Refugee Convention
1954 Statelessness Convention
1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees

Keywords
Birth Certificates
Convention refugee
Mandate status
Non-refoulement
Refoulement
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures
Right to a nationality
Right to registration at birth
Statelessness
Statelessness Determination Procedures
Region
Central Asia
Protected persons
Asylum-seekers
Refugees
Stateless persons

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