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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. -
Feature: Building a future with their own hands
19 Feb 2004 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. -
End of an era as UNHCR closes local offices in Croatia
7 Jan 2004 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. -
In memory: "Pero Simundza, a Croatian killed in an attack on UNHCR's office in West Timor"
18 Dec 2003 In the Line of Duty: UNHCR remembers one of its murdered staff members. -
Lubbers, Busek say fate of one million uprooted persons key to Balkan stability
30 Jan 2002 Prospects for peace and stability in the Balkans are directly linked to the fate of the one million people who are still uprooted in the region as a result of the war, according to High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers and Erhard Busek, the new head of the Balkans 'Stability Pact.' -
Return to Croatia - Milana's Story
4 Feb 2001 Milana Grubic was only 10 when her parents gathered their two small daughters and fled to Serbia as Croatian troops closed in on their home village.