145,000 Syrian refugee women fight for survival as they head families alone
One quarter of Syrian refugee women caught in a spiral of poverty, isolation and fear More than 145,000 Syrian refugee families in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan – or one in four of all households – are headed by women facing a lone fight for survival, a...
UNHCR Appeals to the Governments in Southeastern Europe to Accelerate Process of Finding Durable Solutions for 60,000 Refugees and 311,000 Internally Displaced Still in the Region
On 28 June 2014, the world will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the events in Sarajevo that triggered the outbreak of the First World War. The deaths and displacement of millions in WWI and the conflicts that followed took a heavy toll on Europe’s...
Global forced displacement tops 50 million for first time since World War II – UNHCR Report
A report released today by UNHCR shows that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide has, for the first time in the post-World War II era, exceeded 50 million people. UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report, which is based on...
On The World Refugee Day: Twenty New Apartments For Vulnerable Idp Families In Bujanovac
Bujanovac, 20 June 2014 – Today, when we are marking the World Refugee Day, fifteen internally displaced families from collective centres on the territory of the municipality of Bujanovac and five domicile, socially vulnerable families received the keys to their...
UNHCR recommends starting the cessation process for refugees from Croatia
The UN Refugee Agency is today recommending that the process of ceasing refugee status of refugees displaced from Croatia in the 1990s begins. Almost 20 years after the conflict in the former Yugoslavia ended, the circumstances that triggered displacement have...
Joint Press Release
Public urged to voice their outrage and demand action to prevent a lost generation in Syria Children cannot afford another year of bloodshed, suffering and missed education, warn aid agencies UNICEF, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Mercy...
Ten Apartments For Vulnerable Refugee And Displaced Families In Zaječar
Ten families: two refugee, six internally displaced families from a collective centre Gamzigradska banja and two domicile, socially vulnerable families received keys to their new apartments in the city of Zaječar. These 10 families now have a sustainable housing...
Prefabricated Houses For IDPS In Požega
Eleven families accommodated in the collective centre “Ratko Mitrović“ signed today agreements for use of prefabricated houses within the framework of the EU project “Support to Implementation of the Strategy for Internally Displaced Persons, Refugees and...
From The Collective Centre Into The New Apartments
The collective centre in Kraljevo is finally closed, its residents having moved into the new, EU-funded, apartments in Boračko naselje. Today, they hosted the EU Delegation Ambassador, Serbian Commissioner for Refugees and UNHCR representative and recounted their...