Archive for 'Spotlight'
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 [...]
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 Supports Opening of Centre for Women
Yesterday UNHCR, United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) and Foundation for Local Democracy (FLD) held a press conference to for the opening of the Centre for Women. Funded by UNHCR and UNFPA and implemented by FLD the Centre is [...]
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 [...]
Durable solutions for DPs
Muhamed was displaced during the war and due to legal and bureaucratic reasons he has now no property to return to. His family’s predicament is repeated throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, where people who were displaced but [...]
Electrification (Returnee Community)
A lack of infrastructure in rural areas, including roads and electrification, can be a major obstacle to sustainable return. Funding allocations infrastructural projects, such as electrification, should be based on needs and vulnerability rather than on [...]
Administrative Gaps
In the village of Cavas, Ravno municipality, live Velimir Mijatovic and his wife. They are returrnees. Their partially destroyed house has no electricity or running water and they survive on what they can grow in their [...]
