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New housing helps cut the number of collective centres in Serbia
21 Aug 2008 The opening of a UNHCR-funded apartment block in southern Serbia brings the goal of closing the remaining collective centres for refugees and internally displaced people a small step closer. -
Less than 50 percent of registered returnees live in Croatia: UNHCR study
16 May 2007 A survey commissioned by the UN refugee agency has found that less than half of the roughly 120,000 ethnic Serbs registered as returnees in Croatia actually live in the country. -
UNHCR welcomes Croatia's first ever asylum case
16 Nov 2006 A 27-year-old African woman fleeing religious persecution and genital mutilation is the first ever person to be granted asylum in Croatia. UNHCR on Thursday welcomed the decision. -
UNHCR, EC and OSCE urge full implementation of Sarajevo Declaration
19 Sep 2006 The three key international actors in south-east Europe urge governments in the region to promptly and fully implement a declaration signed in January 2005 and respect self-imposed deadlines. -
Taking Bosnia's temperature, 10 years after Dayton
21 Nov 2005 The current issue of UNHCR's Refugees magazine is devoted to an examination of the good, the bad and the ugly, ten years after the Dayton Peace Accords brought an end to the three-and-a-half-year war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, stimulating the return home of more than a million displaced Bosnians, and around 2.5 million across the Balkans as a whole. -
Not everyone flies from the cuckoo's nest
26 Aug 2005 A group of 29 elderly mental patients have been stranded at a refugee reception centre in Hungary since they were evacuated from their mental ward in Bosnia and Herzegovina 13 years ago. They want to go home, but the Bosnian health care system is unable to take care of them. -
Home again, 10 years after Croatia's Operation Storm
5 Aug 2005 A decade after Operation Storm, when the Croatian military launched a massive offensive that drove some 250,000 Croatian Serbs into exile, more than half of this refugee population has returned to Croatia. UNHCR looks at their hopes and challenges on the 10th anniversary of the exodus. -
Remembering Srebrenica
8 Jul 2005 Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorates the 10th anniversary of the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II as the country also looks to the future almost a decade after the guns fell silent. -
This is the best place in the world, Bosnian returnee tells UN official
17 Jun 2005 On a recent visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Walter Kälin, the UN Secretary-General's Representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, spoke to returnees who were happy to be home despite facing some difficulties settling back in.