The Tunisian Refugee Council is an active humanitarian organization in the field of asylum . it was established on June 28th, 2016, by the initiative of Mr Mustapha Djemali, former Regional Director at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and certain members representing the various sectors of the Tunisian civil society, to help manage issues relating to asylum in Tunisia and to support the Tunisian authorities in their efforts to find appropriate solutions to the difficulties encountered by refugees in Tunisia.