UNHCR supports BiH authorities in the effective identification of people in need of international protection
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...
UNHCR and EU support the Montenegro MoI to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 transmission
26 February 2021, Podgorica – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the European Union donated today tens of thousands of personal protective and hygiene items to Montenegro’s Ministry of Interior to protect refugees and asylum seekers as well as the Ministry’s...
UNHCR and Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees discuss integration of refugees in BiH
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...
UNHCR support for the Service for Foreigners’ Affairs for early identification of protection needs
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.
UNHCR acknowledges BiH authorities’ efforts in improving conditions for people in camp Lipa
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with UN and civil society partners are very concerned about the fate of almost 2,000 people stranded in winter conditions in the country, particularly in Una-Sana Canton including those left without...
UNHCR Refugee Law Clinic brings together Law students from six BiH Universities
A total of 60 students successfully attended a two-week online course designed to expand their knowledge and understanding of international refugee law principles and practice. These students were from law faculties from the University of Bihać, University in Istočno...
Asylum-seekers turn-off violence against women and girls in RRC Salakovac
As part of the campaign 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, implemented under the motto “Turn-off violence against women and girl “, the BHWI Foundation in RRC Salakovac held workshops with women living in this center. Asylum-seekers wrote...
16 Days of Activism: Turn off violence against women and girls
COVID-19 pandemic has globally influenced the increase of gender-based violence. Restrictive movement measures, especially those in place in reception centers for migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees, increase the possibility of occurrence of gender-based violence....
UNHCR warns second wave of COVID pandemic driving further violence against refugee women and girls
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...
Gagné: Statelessness status has been resolved for 1,770 people in BiH so far
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.
Bosnia and Herzegovina on the right path to eradicate statelessness by 2024
Meeting between the Ministry of Civil Affairs and UNHCR on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the UNHCR campaign #IBelong
Donation of ICT equipment to the Service for Foreigners’ Affairs
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”.