Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons

The BiH Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees (MHRR), in cooperation with UNHCR Representation in BiH, held the first in a series of thematic round tables dedicated to the specific sets of rights of refugees and people granted subsidiary protection guaranteed by the Law on Asylum, which are important segments […]

Asylum-seekers and refugees arriving in BiH, in need of international protection, require information on key actors and services available in languages they understand.  UNHCR has an info site: HELP.UNHCR.ORG and is finalizing the establishment of a call centre, where people can obtain information on rights, entitlements, and where to access […]

Vocational art therapies and recreational group activities are part of the psychosocial programmes for vulnerable groups of asylum-seekers women provided by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, through a partnership with the Bosnia and Herzegovina Women’s Initiative (BHWI) in several reception centres in Sarajevo and Herzegovina-Neretva Canton in BiH. In those […]

As part of its capacity-building activities for partner institutions, UNHCR completed yesterday a two-day training for Service for Foreigners‘ Affairs (SFA) staff involved in the registration of people who intend to seek asylum in BiH. Co-funded by the European Union, this training aims to improve the SFA work on collecting more […]

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, holds a long-lasting partnership with the  Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina working together for many years for the benefit of people displaced by conflict. On their first meeting of 2021, Minister Miloš Lučić  and UNHCR Representative in BiH, Lucie Gagné […]

This support will enable the SFA and other actors in the mixed migration space to conduct early identification of protection needs and channel the migrants and refugees towards an appropriate solution.

s the coronavirus pandemic prolongs, a lethal mix of confinement, deepening poverty and economic duress is unleashing a renewed wave of violence against refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning today. “We are receiving alarming reports of sharp increases in the risks of […]

Since 2014, when UNHCR launched the #IBelong campaign, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has made significant strides in resolving the issue of statelessness, reducing the number of stateless persons, or those who do not have citizenship.

Meeting between the Ministry of Civil Affairs and UNHCR on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the UNHCR campaign #IBelong

The activities are funded by the European Union Service for Foreign Policy Instruments as part of the project “Identifying and Addressing COVID-19 challenges within the Migrant and Refugee Response in the Western Balkans”.