Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons
This Handbook is intended to guide government officials, judges and practitioners, as well as UNHCR staff and others involved in addressing statelessness. It is hoped that the Handbook will provide a valuable resource for both statelessness determination and the development and implementation of law and policies relating to the protection of stateless persons.
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Unilever supports UNHCR’s global efforts to improve hygiene in shelters for asylum seekers and refugees
8 Sep 2020In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Unilever’s donation of 4,500 pieces of soap was delivered to the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the institutions that manage the country’s permanent reception centers.
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Strengthening Capacity of Asylum System in Bosnia and Herzegovina by sharing best practices and knowledge with Italy
28 Jan 2020A Delegation of asylum authorities from Italian Ministry of Interior last week began a ten-day visit to BIH. This visit is organized and supported within the EU funded project IPA II – Regional Support to Protection Sensitive Migration Management in the Western Balkans and Turkey, Phase II in the context […]
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Expert workshops for medical staff engaged in assisting persons of interest to UNHCR in Bosnia and Herzegovina
5 Dec 2019The fourth in a series of workshops for healthcare professionals who are providing direct support to migrants and refugees in BiH took place in Sarajevo today. The objective of the workshop, organized within the project Improving Health Care and Protection of Persons of Interest for UNHCR in Una-Sana Canton and […]
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UNHCR welcomes action by North Macedonia’s Parliament to approve accession to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
27 Nov 2019The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Representation in North Macedonia welcomes the approval of the accession to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness by the Parliament of North Macedonia. Accession to the statelessness conventions is one of the global commitments made by States towards the goal of ending statelessness […]
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Anne-Christine Eriksson, UNHCR Regional Representative: We have achieved a lot in the last three years in BiH
9 Oct 2019Indeed, I think we did achieve a lot in the last three years, but all that would not have been possible without a close and genuine collaboration we have had with responsible ministries, other government bodies at all levels, municipalities, non-governmental organizations, volunteers, but also the ordinary citizens of this […]
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UNHCR Regional Representative plants a linden tree in Ambassadors’ Alley in Sarajevo
19 Sep 2019UNHCR Regional Representative for South Eastern Europe and Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Anne-Christine Eriksson, together with Ambassador of the Republic of Austria Ulrike Hartmann and Ambassador of the Italian Republic Nicola Minasi planted today a linden tree in the Ambassadors’ Alley, at the popular pedestrian stretch Dariva, which is […]
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Swiss donation secures better access to health care for refugees and asylum-seekers from the Salakovac Reception Centre
4 Jul 2019This contribution by the Government of Switzerland for the health sector is ensuring a much needed flexibility for UNHCR to help BiH authorities to fill remaining gaps within the health sector, as they respond to the urgent basic needs of refugees and asylum-seekers in BiH.
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Workshops for Protection Professionals Working with Refugees, Asylum seekers and Migrants held in Sarajevo
6 Jun 2019On 30 May 2019 in Sarajevo, the UNHCR Bosnia and Herzegovina and Danish Refugee Council organised a workshop for protection professionals working with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Sarajevo Canton with the goal of enhancing knowledge and skill-sets within the protection sector.
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EU supports protection-sensitive approaches integrated into migration management practices in the Western Balkan and Turkey
16 May 2019The project “Regional Support to Protection-Sensitive Migration Management in the Western Balkans and Turkey”, EU-funded multi-country programme, has mainstreamed protection into migration management practice, and supported the beneficiaries in the Western Balkans region (WB6) and Turkey in developing a protection-sensitive response to mixed migration flows, it was said today on […]
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Legends of Pirates
16 May 2019Shezad K. is 16. He fled Afghanistan two years ago. Back home, he witnessed his family perish before his eyes, and after many years of struggling on his own in the unsafe streets of his hometown, had to flee to seek international protection. On arrival to Serbia, with the help […]