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Fruit and vegetable farmer turns to UNHCR to treat his ailing tractor
2 Mar 2010 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. -
High Commissioner Guterres urges swift end to displacement chapter in Western Balkans
28 Aug 2009 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.” -
New York Gallery to display handicrafts made by Croatian refugees
22 Jul 2009 The elaborate handicrafts of former refugee women in a central Croatia highland region set to be exhibited to a wide audience in New York. -
Better late than never as displaced woman finds a home in Croatia
4 Mar 2009 After 17 years of displacement, a 78-year-old displaced by war in Croatia has found a new home through government housing programme. -
New housing helps cut the number of collective centres in Serbia
21 Aug 2008 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. -
Less than 50 percent of registered returnees live in Croatia: UNHCR study
16 May 2007 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. -
UNHCR welcomes Croatia's first ever asylum case
16 Nov 2006 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. -
Home again, 10 years after Croatia's Operation Storm
5 Aug 2005 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. -
Balkan governments seek to close refugee chapter in region
31 Jan 2005 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.