Archive for 'November,2011'
UNHCR and Partners Deliver Emergency Assistance to Roma Families
UNHCR, in cooperation with Bosnia-Herzegovina Women’s Initiative (BHWI) and Vasa Prava BiH delivered emergency assistance to Roma families living in dire and inhumane conditions near Capljina. [...]
An Unexpected Meeting with Angelina Jolie Brings Joy a Year Later
15 November 2011 Lena stands outside her new home, holding the photo of her and Mara with Angelina Jolie. ROGATICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 15 (UNHCR) – In April last year, Lena Babic had her photograph [...]
EU Director for Western Enlargement Visits Collective Centers
13.11.2011 Focusing on the plights of those still living in collective centres Sixteen years after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina some 8600 people – mainly Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) – still live [...]
UNHCR BiH Gives Statement on World Humanitarian Day
UNHCR BiH Senior Protection Officer Scott Pohl gives statement for local news network, BHRT, on World Humanitarian Day, 19 August, 2011. [...]
Commissioner for Human Rights: Only Genuine Justice Can Ensure Peace in the Balkans
Only Genuine Justice can Ensure Durable Peace in the Balkans European institutions failed to protect people in the former Yugoslavia from ethnic cleansing and other war atrocities in the 1990s. The return to normalcy has been [...]
