Joint Press Release
Public urged to voice their outrage and demand action to prevent a lost generation in Syria Children cannot afford another year of bloodshed, suffering and missed education, warn aid agencies UNICEF, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Mercy...
Ten Apartments For Vulnerable Refugee And Displaced Families In Zaječar
Ten families: two refugee, six internally displaced families from a collective centre Gamzigradska banja and two domicile, socially vulnerable families received keys to their new apartments in the city of Zaječar. These 10 families now have a sustainable housing...
Prefabricated Houses For IDPS In Požega
Eleven families accommodated in the collective centre “Ratko Mitrović“ signed today agreements for use of prefabricated houses within the framework of the EU project “Support to Implementation of the Strategy for Internally Displaced Persons, Refugees and...
From The Collective Centre Into The New Apartments
The collective centre in Kraljevo is finally closed, its residents having moved into the new, EU-funded, apartments in Boračko naselje. Today, they hosted the EU Delegation Ambassador, Serbian Commissioner for Refugees and UNHCR representative and recounted their...
Message On World Refugee Day
More than 42 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes and communities. More than a million fled their countries in the last eighteen months alone due to a wave of conflicts, in Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Sudan and...
UNHCR report shows a record 800,000 people forced to flee across borders in 2011
A report released today by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees shows 2011 to have been a record year for forced displacement across borders, with more people becoming refugees than at any time since 2000. UNHCR’s 2011 Global Trends report details for the first...
Un High Commissioner For Refugees Launches State Of The World’s Refugees, Warns Of Worsening Global Displacement
The head of the UN refugee agency, António Guterres, warned today that factors causing mass population flight are growing and that the coming 10 years will see more and more people on the move becoming refugees or internally displaced persons. In comments marking the...
Twenty New Apartments for Vulnerable Refugee and Displaced Families in Belgrade
Eleven refugee and nine internally displaced families that until recently lived in the three collective centres in Belgrade, today received keys to new apartments in Veliki Mokri Lug. The apartments, part of the “Social Housing in Supportive Environment”...
UNHCR Launches Campaign To Combat Statelessness
Around the world today there are millions of people who are not recognized as citizens of any country. On paper they don’t exist anywhere. They are people without a nationality. They are stateless. UNHCR is mandated to prevent statelessness. Marking the 50th...