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What is the Bureau's role?
The State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) provides aid and sustainable solutions for refugees, victims of conflict and stateless people around the world, through repatriation, local integration, and resettlement in the United States. PRM also promotes the United States' population and migration policies.
Who is a refugee?
A refugee is a person who has been forced from his or her home and crossed an international border for safety. He or she must have a well-founded fear of persecution in his or her native country, on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
How does the Bureau deliver assistance?
The. U.S. government provides assistance largely through the multilateral system in order to maximize impact and minimize duplication. Our major partners include the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Organization for Migration, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA).
Read the remarks given by Acting Assistant Secretary of State Samuel Witten at UNHCR’s World Refugee Day event at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. on June 18, 2009. Secretary Clinton's Statement
Samuel M. Witten, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres signing the Framework for Cooperation between the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Department of State, for the Year 2009 on May 18, 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.
-FY2010 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Reception and Placement Program
Deadline is Tuesday, July 21, 2009
-Congressional Presentation Document FY 2010 PDF 449 KB
-Election of the United States to the Human Rights Council
-In FY2008, PRM commissioned an external evaluation of the Bureau's support for refugee return and reintegration programs in Burundi. Please click here for text or PDF to see the summary evaluation report. For a copy of the full report, please contact us.
-Two PRM Bureau officers write about the U.S. government’s concern for stateless populations in this article from Forced Migration Review (FMR). FMR is a magazine published by the Refugee Studies Centre of the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
-U.S. Gives $9.3 Million to Help Displaced Pakistanis (Apr. 2)
Read the remarks given by Acting Assistant Secretary of State Samuel Witten at UNHCR’s World Refugee Day event at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. on June 18, 2009.
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