Triggs: biggest challenge is to identify those who really want to stay and need international protection in BiH – Video Interview
UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs visited Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she spoke with BiH authorities and visited three reception centers where refugees are accommodated, in Bihać, Lipa and in the reception center Ušivak, near...
UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection visits Bosnia and Herzegovina, stresses the importance of protecting vulnerable refugees
14 July 2021 Sarajevo, BiH Access to asylum, integration of refugees and increased support for vulnerable asylum-seekers were at the forefront of a three-day visit of UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Gillian Triggs to Bosnia and Herzegovina that...
UNHCR Principal Situation Coordinator for the Western Balkans visits partner organisations working in TRC Blažuj
UNHCR Principal Situation Coordinator for the Western Balkans, Anne-Marie Deutschlander, and UNHCR Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lucie Gagné, visited the Blažuj Temporary Reception Center near Sarajevo on July 9, 2021. UNHCR, the United Nations refugee...
Access to Asylum in BiH video explainer brings info on access to international protection closer to those that might be in need, including Unaccompanied or Separated Children
Supported by the EU Service for Foreign Policy Instruments within the project “Addressing COVID-19 Challenges within the Migrant and Refugee Response in the Western Balkans” and supported by the BiH Ministry of Security, UNHCR created a series of video...
UNHCR and the Ministry of Interior Commemorate the 2021 World Refugee Day in Montenegro through a series of events
21 – 25 June 2021 Every year, on 20 June the world celebrates the strength and resilience of refugees, people who, due to war and persecution, have been stripped of everything but still carry on. By the end of 2020, conflict and persecution have forced more than 82...
After 35 years, the nightmare of a legal limbo ends for a mother of 9 in Montenegro
Statelessness is like a family virus that you pass down to your children – and wearing a mask and washing hands does not help!
Photo Exhibition on World Refugee Day in Tuzla
On 21 June, we marked World Refugee Day with Tuzla authorities to exhibit photos portraying the displaced, stateless and those assisting them. The exhibition was compiled through several unique themes essential to the mixed movement situation in BIH from 2018-2021 as...
World Refugee Day 2021 UN and civil society testimonials
During World Refugee Day 2021, UNHCR, IOM, UNFPA, Save the Children, DRC, BHWI and Vaša Prava BiH staff shared personal testimonials of displacement motivating them to provide protection and humanitarian aid to people on the move within the current mixed movement of...
BiH artist Rikardo Druškić painted a mural in Refugee Reception Center Salakovac
A mural, named “Together we can achieve everything”, is the latest artwork of one of the most sought after BiH visual artists painted in the Salakovac Refugee Reception Center on World Refugee Day. This mural, which shares its name with this year’s...
Interview with UNHCR Representative in BiH, Lucie Gagné on the occasion of World Refugee Day
World Refugee Day is an international day to honor refugees around the globe. It falls each year on June 20 and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution. World Refugee Day is an...
UNOSAPG Adviser & UN USG, Ms. Alice Wairimu Nderitu visited RHP beneficiaries during her visit to BiH
During her inaugural visit to BiH, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and UN Under-Secretary-General Ms. Alice Wairimu Nderitu visited displaced families who benefitted from the Regional Housing Programme in Sarajevo. Ms. Wairimu Nderitu said that...
Highlight on the importance of an inclusive system for people granted international protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Finding a new home in safety and become productive members of host communities is high on the list of priorities of people who have been granted asylum in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For many years now, the leading State institution enabling them to achieve their goal is...