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<title><![CDATA[More than 60 rescued at sea in southern Adriatic]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes the prompt and efficient action of the Croatian Coast Guard yesterday (2nd July) in rescuing 65 people adrift on a boat in the Adriatic. The boat was spotted drifting off the Croatian island...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Donors pledge more than 300 million euros to help refugees in Balkans]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A new programme will provide homes for some 74,000 people displaced in the Balkans during the conflict of the 1990s. The EU pledged 230 million euros.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Donors gather in Sarajevo to support regional efforts to end displacement]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres is in Sarajevo this morning where he is attending an international donor conference aimed at generating funds to support the housing needs of the regions...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes latest regional effort to end refugee displacement in Balkans]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Ministers of four countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia support new regional progamme to end the suffering of more than 70,000 refugees.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes regional efforts to end protracted refugee situation in western Balkans]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in Belgrade, the ministers of foreign affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia signed a joint declaration aimed at speeding solutions for 74,000 remaining refugees from...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Statelessness: UNHCR hails new support, urges more action on treaties ]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Croatia, Nigeria and the Philippines have become the latest countries to become party to one or both of the statelessness conventions.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Statelessness treaties gain support but need stronger boost]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[This week has seen quiet but significant developments on the sidelines of the General Assembly session in New York with regard to statelessness. Three countries, Croatia, Nigeria, and the Philippines,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes Serbia-Croatia agreement on refugee and return issues]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes yesterday's announcement by the presidents of Croatia and Serbia of an agreement on resolving their two countries' mutual refugee and return issues. Successful resolution of these issues...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fruit and vegetable farmer turns to UNHCR to treat his ailing tractor]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Nikola Lakic treasures his tractor. It helped him escape conflict and survive in exile. When age caught up with the vehicle, Nikola received timely help from UNHCR.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Commissioner Guterres urges swift end to displacement chapter in Western Balkans]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Drawing attention to the lingering problem of refugees reluctant or unable to return to their homes 14 years after hostilities ended in the Western Balkans, UNHCR High Commissioner António Guterres said, “it is time to close the chapter of refugees in this region once and for all.”]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New York Gallery to display handicrafts made by Croatian refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The elaborate handicrafts of former refugee women in a central Croatia highland region set to be exhibited to a wide audience in New York.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Better late than never as displaced woman finds a home in Croatia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After 17 years of displacement, a 78-year-old displaced by war in Croatia has found a new home through government housing programme.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New housing helps cut the number of collective centres in Serbia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The opening of a UNHCR-funded apartment block in southern Serbia brings the goal of closing the remaining collective centres for refugees and internally displaced people a small step closer.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Less than 50 percent of registered returnees live in Croatia: UNHCR study]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A survey commissioned by the UN refugee agency has found that less than half of the roughly 120,000 ethnic Serbs registered as returnees in Croatia actually live in the country.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes Croatia's first ever asylum case]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A 27-year-old African woman fleeing religious persecution and genital mutilation is the first ever person to be granted asylum in Croatia. UNHCR on Thursday welcomed the decision.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Home again, 10 years after Croatia's Operation Storm]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A decade after Operation Storm, when the Croatian military launched a massive offensive that drove some 250,000 Croatian Serbs into exile, more than half of this refugee population has returned to Croatia. UNHCR looks at their hopes and challenges on the 10th anniversary of the exodus.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 5 Aug 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Balkan governments seek to close refugee chapter in region]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[At today's "3x3 Initiative" conference in Sarajevo, the governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro agreed to bring a close to the region's refugee chapter through voluntary return or local integration by the end of 2006, with assistance from UNHCR, OSCE and the EU.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Feature: Building a future with their own hands]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A glowing example of refugee self-reliance, the Tarbuk family from Croatia has worked hard to integrate into their new community in Serbia. With a little help from aid agencies like UNHCR, they are in the process of completing their own house and rebuilding a new life.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[End of an era as UNHCR closes local offices in Croatia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After establishing a vast presence throughout Croatia in the early 1990s, peace and the return of many refugees has allowed UNHCR to scale back its presence in Croatia, though the country's returnees still face important challenges.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In memory: "Pero Simundza, a Croatian killed in an attack on UNHCR's office in West Timor"]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[In the Line of Duty: UNHCR remembers one of its murdered staff members.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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