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Fruit and vegetable farmer turns to UNHCR to treat his ailing tractor
2 Mar 2010 Nikola Lakic treasures his tractor. It helped him escape conflict and survive in exile. When age caught up with the vehicle, Nikola received timely help from UNHCR. -
High Commissioner Guterres urges swift end to displacement chapter in Western Balkans
28 Aug 2009 Drawing attention to the lingering problem of refugees reluctant or unable to return to their homes 14 years after hostilities ended in the Western Balkans, UNHCR High Commissioner António Guterres said, “it is time to close the chapter of refugees in this region once and for all.” -
Protracted Refugee Situation: The continuing struggle of Europe's forgotten refugees
12 Jan 2009 Years after the violent break-up of Yugoslavia, there are still almost 100,000 refugees in Serbia. For many, real solutions seem to be as elusive as ever. -
UNHCR hands over asylum centre to Serbian government
24 Dec 2008 Serbia formally takes over control of the country's only asylum centre from the UN refugee agency, which had cared for asylum seekers for decades. -
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. -
One Macedonian town's waste is refugees' livelihood
17 Mar 2008 A Macedonian businessman is helping Roma refugees from Kosovo to become self-reliant by hiring them to work at a garbage recycling plant. -
Roma refugees see music as their route to self-reliance
15 Jan 2008 Members of the only refugee band in the capital of Macedonia have seized a chance for self-reliance that relatively few Roma refugees have managed. -
Almost 100 Roma return to Kosovo city
18 Oct 2007 UNHCR has assisted 92 members of Kosovo's minority Roma, Ashkalia and Egyptian communities to return to their home district in the city of Mitrovica. -
Hundreds of new flats honour pledge of refugee integration in Serbia
2 Aug 2007 Hundreds of new flats under construction in Serbia will bring the promise of refugee integration nearer to fulfilment.