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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.