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UNHCR mobilizes lawyers to combat statelessness in Montenegro
31 May 2007 Hadzi and Maksum Miftari seem full of life, but in legal terms the boys practically did not exist in their birthplace Montenegro or anywhere else until recently. A UNHCR legal aid programme helped get them a birth certificate and nationality, but many others from minority groups are still at risk of statelessness. -
Felt-making craft helps young Roma refugee women in Balkans state
24 May 2007 UNHCR is helping a small group of Roma women in Skopje to learn a simple, ancient craft that will boost their self-esteem and help them and their families become self-sufficient. -
Almost 120 displaced people return to Mitrovica's Roma Mahala district
12 Mar 2007 The UN refugee agency has helped 118 people from minority communities return to their home district in the Kosovo city of Mitrovica almost eight years after they were forced to leave. -
UNHCR, EC and OSCE urge full implementation of Sarajevo Declaration
19 Sep 2006 The three key international actors in south-east Europe urge governments in the region to promptly and fully implement a declaration signed in January 2005 and respect self-imposed deadlines. -
Belgrade, Pristina and UN sign protocol on return of displaced people
9 Jun 2006 Following a year of intensive talks and meetings under UNHCR auspices, Belgrade and Pristina have signed a protocol aimed at facilitating and steering the return of internally displaced persons to the troubled province of Kosovo. -
UNHCR to help independent Montenegro solve refugee problems
6 Jun 2006 Montenegro formally declared independence at the weekend, but the country still faces the problem of how to handle thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons - victims of the Balkan wars. The UN refugee agency says it will help the new nation protect these people and build a national asylum system. -
Some of Kosovo's displaced minorities finally get a place to call home
31 May 2006 After seven years in the misery of the run-down Plemetina camp in Kosovo, 58 Roma families displaced since 1999 have moved into new housing after a concerted effort led by UNHCR. -
Leaving Plemetina
13 Dec 2005 Six years after the end of the conflict in Kosovo, there are still more than 20,000 internally displaced people in the UN-administered territory. Social housing projects funded by the Kosovo authorities, the European Agency for Reconstruction and the Greek Government are helping a few of them fulfil the dream of having a home of their own. -
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.