Message On World Refugee Day
More than 42 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes and communities. More than a million fled their countries in the last eighteen months alone due to a wave of conflicts, in Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Sudan and...
UNHCR report shows a record 800,000 people forced to flee across borders in 2011
A report released today by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees shows 2011 to have been a record year for forced displacement across borders, with more people becoming refugees than at any time since 2000. UNHCR’s 2011 Global Trends report details for the first...
Un High Commissioner For Refugees Launches State Of The World’s Refugees, Warns Of Worsening Global Displacement
The head of the UN refugee agency, António Guterres, warned today that factors causing mass population flight are growing and that the coming 10 years will see more and more people on the move becoming refugees or internally displaced persons. In comments marking the...
Twenty New Apartments for Vulnerable Refugee and Displaced Families in Belgrade
Eleven refugee and nine internally displaced families that until recently lived in the three collective centres in Belgrade, today received keys to new apartments in Veliki Mokri Lug. The apartments, part of the “Social Housing in Supportive Environment”...
UNHCR Launches Campaign To Combat Statelessness
Around the world today there are millions of people who are not recognized as citizens of any country. On paper they don’t exist anywhere. They are people without a nationality. They are stateless. UNHCR is mandated to prevent statelessness. Marking the 50th...
UNHCR Urges The Government To Amend Legislation
The right to nationality is a fundamental human right, as stipulated in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Persons without personal documentation face problems proving their nationality and are at risk of becoming stateless. These individuals are...
UNHCR report: 80% of world’s refugees in developing countries
A UNHCR report released today reveals deep imbalance in international support for the world’s forcibly displaced, with a full four-fifths of the world’s refugees being hosted by developing countries – and at a time of rising anti-refugee sentiment in many...
Twenty New Apartments For Refugee, Displaced And Socially Vulnerable Families In Smederevo
Fifteen displaced, one refugee and four domicile socially vulnerable families (68 persons in all) from Smederevo received keys to their new apartments, the construction of which was funded by the European Union. The building, consisting of 20 housing units, for Social...
Twenty New Apartments For Displaced And Socially Vulnerable Families In Leskovac
Sixteen displaced and four domicile socially vulnerable families (52 persons in all) from Leskovac received keys to their new apartments, the construction of which was funded by the European Union. The building, consisting of 20 housing units, for Social Housing in...