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Donors Pledge Some EUR 300 million to Refugees in Balkans

Donors Pledge Some EUR 300 million to Refugees in Balkans

A new social housing project for displaced people in eastern Bosnia. The inhabitants used to live in a dilapidated building. SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 25 (UNHCR) –International donors have pledged an initial sum of more than [...]

Suffering goes on for 330,000 refugees of the Yugoslav war

Suffering goes on for 330,000 refugees of the Yugoslav war

More than 330,000 people who were forced to flee their homes during the war in the former Yugoslavia are still classified as refugees or displaced, 20 years on from the start of one of the bloodiest [...]

UNHCR, Partners, and Roma Commemorate International Roma Day

UNHCR, Partners, and Roma Commemorate International Roma Day

UNHCR, its partners and Roma volunteers and refugee children took to school playgrounds to distribute information leaflets in light of International Roma Day, 8 April. The leaflets are part of awareness raising initiatives for equal access [...]

Sarajevo 2012: Book Fair

Sarajevo 2012: Book Fair

UNHCR’s publications on the BiH operation 1992-1995. Sarajevo 2012 Book Fair. Photography:  Marco Lambooij. View full album here. [...]

UNHCR and War Media: Sarajevo 2012

UNHCR and War Media: Sarajevo 2012

  In commemoration of  Sarajevo 2012, UNHCR compiled a video of its operation in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992-1995. Sarajevo 2012  commemorates an occasion where 20 years ago international news representatives covered the war in BiH.  UNHCR worked in [...]

UNHCR Representative Visits Returnees and Displaced Persons in Srebrenica and the North East

UNHCR Representative Visits Returnees and Displaced Persons in Srebrenica and the North East

Together with the municipality and implementing partner Vasa Prava UNHCR BiH Representative Andrew Mayne visited IDP families at the new social housing facility in Srebrenica where some of the most vulnerable families received furniture and household [...]

Preparation for the Donor Conference: Personal Envoy of the High Commissioner Visits the Region

Preparation for the Donor Conference: Personal Envoy of the High Commissioner Visits the Region

Mr. Anne Willem Bijleveld, Personal Envoy to the Western Balkans of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, met with senior government partners and the international diplomatic corps in Sarajevo on Monday at the start of a [...]

UNHCR Partner Commemorates 8 March by Increasing Safety

UNHCR Partner Commemorates 8 March by Increasing Safety

To commemorate International Women’s Day, UNHCR partner  Bosnia-Herzegovina Women’s Initiative held a round table discussion yesterday in city of Mostar on the safety of women and girls. The main objective of the round table was to [...]

UNHCR delivered emergency food supplies to the public kitchen in Glamoc

UNHCR delivered emergency food supplies to the public kitchen in Glamoc

UNHCR delivered emergency food supplies to the public kitchen in Glamoc, run by the NGO, Mission Without Borders, which provides regular meals to nearly one hundred vulnerable IDPs and returnees, many of whom are elderly and [...]

UNHCR and Private Donor Distribute New Year Gifts for Children in Need

UNHCR and Private Donor Distribute New Year Gifts for Children in Need

Private donations from the international community purchased gifts for some 130 children in BiH, ages 1 to 13. The children belong to some of the most vulnerable returnee and collective center households in the country living [...]