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Taking Bosnia's temperature, 10 years after Dayton
21 Nov 2005 The current issue of UNHCR's Refugees magazine is devoted to an examination of the good, the bad and the ugly, ten years after the Dayton Peace Accords brought an end to the three-and-a-half-year war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, stimulating the return home of more than a million displaced Bosnians, and around 2.5 million across the Balkans as a whole. -
Not everyone flies from the cuckoo's nest
26 Aug 2005 A group of 29 elderly mental patients have been stranded at a refugee reception centre in Hungary since they were evacuated from their mental ward in Bosnia and Herzegovina 13 years ago. They want to go home, but the Bosnian health care system is unable to take care of them. -
Remembering Srebrenica
8 Jul 2005 Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorates the 10th anniversary of the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II as the country also looks to the future almost a decade after the guns fell silent. -
Review of returns to Srebrenica, June 2005
1 Jul 2005 -
This is the best place in the world, Bosnian returnee tells UN official
17 Jun 2005 On a recent visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Walter Kälin, the UN Secretary-General's Representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, spoke to returnees who were happy to be home despite facing some difficulties settling back in. -
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Re-registration shows substantial drop in IDP numbers
15 Apr 2005 -
Internally displaced number drops in Bosnia and Herzegovina
15 Apr 2005 The preliminary results of a re-registration show that there are now 185,000 internally displaced people in the country, down from more than 500,000 in 2000. Many people have returned to their pre-war homes, while others have integrated in their host communities. -
Bosnia and Herzegovina: landmark MOU signed with the Council of Europe Development Bank
15 Mar 2005 -
Europe development bank funds housing projects in Balkans
15 Mar 2005 More than 2,300 people in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro will soon have been enabled to move out of collective centres into individual accommodation after the finalisation of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) and the UN refugee agency.