Torbat-e Jam is an Afghan
refugee camp
A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for internally displaced peo ...
in eastern Iran, established around 1998. The camp, as of 2008, housed 5,000 Afghan refugees on a 100-hectare compound of permanent brick housing, schools and clinics, and a mosque.
[ UNHCR chief visits, praises refugee camp in eastern Iran]
UNHCR News Stories, 21 November 2008
United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres ( , ; born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat. Since 2017, he has served as secretary-general of the United Nations, the ninth person to hold this title. A member of the Portuguese Socia ...
visited the camp in late 2008 and described it as " probably the best refugee settlement in Iran, if not the world."
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References
Afghan refugee camps
Refugee camps in Iran
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