Following the dissolution of the Centre for Documentation and Research (CDR), a Working Group recommended that the former CDR’ core protection functions of research/analysis and legal information become integrated into the Division of International Protection (DIP). As a result, the Protection Information Section (PIS) was established in December 2001.
The stated aims of PIS at its inception were ‘to support UNHCR’s protection role, in particular in the area of research, the provision of country of origin and legal information and the issuing of Refworld. . .and assist the refugee protection efforts of governments by providing pertinent country analysis and refugeerelated legal information in order to ensure accurate and sound decision-making and policy formulation relating to refugee protection.’
