Danish Refugee Council

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Danish Refugee Council (DRC) (Danish: Dansk Flygtningehjælp) is a private Danish humanitarian organisation, founded in 1956. It serves as an umbrella organization for 33 member organizations.

One of the largest in Northern Caucasus.

The Danish Refugee Council works in more than 20 countries throughout the world to help refugees by giving aid and helping in rehabilitation. Formed after the Second World War, and in response to the European refugee crises caused by the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Danish Refugee council has been active in humanitarian projects throughout the world; most recently and notably providing humanitarian convoy operations in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina during the wars of independence in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990's. The organisation has also been heavily involved in Kosovo, Albania, East and West Timor, West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia), Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East. Apart from providing safe haven and asylum for refugees, the organisation has also been active in logistics and reconstruction work for various international agencies such as the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).