Ukraine: Ukraine: Country Fact Sheet September 2019
2019-09-27 00:00:00 - Source: Relief Web
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Russian Federation, Somalia, Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine, World
The UN Refugee Agency has been working in Ukraine since 1994 and established a country office the following year. A host country agreement was signed in September 1996.
Ukraine acceded to the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees and the 1967 Protocol in 2002. A 2011 law regulates the treatment of refugees and other persons of concern in Ukraine.
In 2013, Ukraine acceded to the two UN Conventions relating to the status of stateless persons (1954) and on the reduction of statelessness (1961).
