🍀 Congratulations, Mr. Barham Salih, on assuming the role of UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Your appointment carries particular meaning because you understand displacement not only as a policy issue, but as a lived experience.
Around the world, many refugee situations remain unresolved not due to lack of recognition, but due to the absence of durable solutions.
In #Kyrgyzstan, 115 UNHCR-recognized Afghan mandate refugees have lived in prolonged legal limbo for over 25 years — recognized, yet without state protection, rights, or a future.
We hope your leadership will help ensure that recognition truly leads to protection, and that long-standing refugee situations are finally guided toward real, durable solutions.
May this new chapter be one where refugees are no longer left waiting — but are finally given a path forward.
@Refugees @UNGeneva
#Kyrgyzstan #Geneva2025 #ResettleMandateRefugeesFromKyrgyzstan
#RecognitionWithoutProtection #EqualProtectionForAll
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☘️ Congratulations, Mr. Barham Salih.
Your personal experience as a former refugee gives hope that long-standing situations of neglect will finally be addressed.
We are UNHCR-recognized mandate refugees living in #Kyrgyzstan, trapped in legal limbo for over a quarter of a century.
We are recognized — yet not recognized by the state.
We have no legal status, no rights, and no future.
This is not protection.
This is prolonged abandonment.
After 25 years, resettlement is no longer optional — it is the only viable solution.
We hope your leadership will finally bring an end to situations where recognition exists without protection.
Recognition must lead to solutions.
@Refugees @UNGeneva
#ResettleMandateRefugeesFromKyrgyzstan #RecognitionWithoutProtection #EqualProtectionForAll #Geneva2025
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🕯️For more than a quarter of a century, we have lived in #Kyrgyzstan in a state of legal limbo — recognized as refugees, yet not recognized by the state where we have been forced to remain.
This is not normal. It is not humane. And it should never be acceptable.
We are not tourists.
We are not voluntary migrants.
We are refugees — people who fled persecution, endured loss, and have survived decades without rights, status, or a future.
Being recognized without protection is not a solution — it is prolonged humiliation through delay.
After 25 years without legal status or prospects in Kyrgyzstan, resettlement is no longer optional — it is the only viable solution.
It is time to end this injustice and bring this tragedy to a dignified conclusion. No one should be left invisible for decades.
Hashtags / call to action:
#ResettleMandateRefugeesFromKyrgyzstan #RecognitionWithoutProtection #EqualProtectionForAll #Geneva2025
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🟥 When an institution documents vulnerability year after year,
but leaves people exposed for decades,
documentation alone is not protection.
#Geneva #Geneva2025 #ResettledAfghanRefugeesFromKyrgyzstan #Kyrgyzstan
#RecognitionWithoutProtection #UNSystem #RefugeeRights #EqualProtectionForAll
🔷 2025 is ending. Our situation remains unresolved.
For over a quarter of a century, 115 UNHCR-recognized Afghan mandate refugees in #Kyrgyzstan have lived in a prolonged legal vacuum — without legal status, without rights, and without any durable solution.
Throughout 2025, we documented this reality in full:
•the legal dead end
•the absence of state protection
•the lack of work authorization
•the impossibility of integration
•and the complete absence of resettlement submissions
This is not due to numbers.
115 people is a small, manageable group.
This is not due to law.
International protection frameworks already exist.
This is due to inaction.
Importantly, this reality is not disputed.
In its Central Asia Strategy 2025 (Executive Summary), UNHCR Central Asia explicitly acknowledges that mandate refugees are tolerated but not legally recognized — left without identity documents, basic rights or protection, and exposed to economic shocks, discrimination, abuse, and exploitation.
If this vulnerability is officially recognized,
why has a quarter-century of exposure to harm been allowed to continue?
Why is prolonged legal limbo treated as acceptable policy?
Recognition without protection does not resolve displacement.
Delay does not preserve dignity.
And waiting for “better conditions” has already cost decades.
There is no integration pathway.
There is no safe return.
Resettlement is the only viable solution.
As 2025 closes, we ask donors and decision-makers to acknowledge what this year has clearly confirmed:
without concrete action, prolonged displacement simply continues.
2026 must not become another year added to exile.
Tags:
@antonioguterres @Refugees @UNHCR_Cent_Asia @UNHCRgov @UNGeneva @UN_News_Centre @UNHumanRights @UN
@StatePRM @StateDept
@CanadaDev @IRCC @UNHCRCanada @CanadaPE @CanadaFP
@ausgov @dfat
@BelgiumUN
@UKMissionGeneva
@UNMigration @IOMchief @IRAP @RefugeeCouncil
#Geneva #Geneva2025 #ResettleMandateRefugeesFromKyrgyzstan
#EqualProtectionForAll #Kyrgyzstan
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🟥 When vulnerability is officially acknowledged — yet left unresolved for decades —
prolonged legal limbo becomes a choice, not an accident.
#Geneva #Geneva2025 #ResettledAfghanRefugeesFromKyrgyzstan #Kyrgyzstan
#RecognitionWithoutProtection #MandateRefugees #ProtectionGap #RefugeeRights
🔷 2025 is ending. Our situation remains unresolved.
For over a quarter of a century, 115 UNHCR-recognized Afghan mandate refugees in #Kyrgyzstan have lived in a prolonged legal vacuum — without legal status, without rights, and without any durable solution.
Throughout 2025, we documented this reality in full:
•the legal dead end
•the absence of state protection
•the lack of work authorization
•the impossibility of integration
•and the complete absence of resettlement submissions
This is not due to numbers.
115 people is a small, manageable group.
This is not due to law.
International protection frameworks already exist.
This is due to inaction.
Importantly, this reality is not disputed.
In its Central Asia Strategy 2025 (Executive Summary), UNHCR Central Asia explicitly acknowledges that mandate refugees are tolerated but not legally recognized — left without identity documents, basic rights or protection, and exposed to economic shocks, discrimination, abuse, and exploitation.
If this vulnerability is officially recognized,
why has a quarter-century of exposure to harm been allowed to continue?
Why is prolonged legal limbo treated as acceptable policy?
Recognition without protection does not resolve displacement.
Delay does not preserve dignity.
And waiting for “better conditions” has already cost decades.
There is no integration pathway.
There is no safe return.
Resettlement is the only viable solution.
As 2025 closes, we ask donors and decision-makers to acknowledge what this year has clearly confirmed:
without concrete action, prolonged displacement simply continues.
2026 must not become another year added to exile.
Tags:
@antonioguterres @Refugees @UNHCR_Cent_Asia @UNHCRgov @UNGeneva @UN_News_Centre @UNHumanRights @UN
@StatePRM @StateDept
@CanadaDev @IRCC @UNHCRCanada @CanadaPE @CanadaFP
@ausgov @dfat
@BelgiumUN
@UKMissionGeneva
@UNMigration @IOMchief @IRAP @RefugeeCouncil
#Geneva #Geneva2025 #ResettleMandateRefugeesFromKyrgyzstan
#EqualProtectionForAll #Kyrgyzstan
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