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Jolie highlights the difficulties still faced by the displaced in Bosnia

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie was mainly interested in the conditions in which the most vulnerable displaced people continue to live in.

Nael El Herbawi originally came to the former Yugoslavia to study medicine.

No longer able to return to his homeland for fear of persecution, Nael has settled in Sanski Most where he has a small organic farm.

Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited BiH again

UN refugee agency Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has been again in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 21 August

Sarajka and her husband and six children live together in a metal container

Hadzovic Family, Trebinje: During the war they were refugees in Montenegro and have since returned to the town. They have no running water and they live...

Protracted displacement

SARAJEVO, 10 November 2009 - UNHCR Representation in BiH presents its brochure on protracted... Read more

Regional Return Initiative

On 31 January 2005, UNHCR together with counterparts from the European Commission and the OSCE i... Read more

Revised Strategy for the Implementation of Annex VII

BiH House of Peoples, at its session on 24 June 2010, adopted the revised Strategy for the... Read more

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In the village of Cavas, Ravno municipality, live Velimir Mijatovic and his wife. They are returnees. Their partially destroyed house has no electricity or running water and they survive on what they can grow in their small land plot.

Electrification (Returnee Community)

The small villages of Gornji and Donji Brodar in the hills above Visegrad are home to a number of returnees. The villages contain all age groups and have a lively spirit. What the villages lack, however, is electricity.

Durable solutions for DPs

Muhamed and his four children live together in the alternative accommodation complex in Gorazde. His family’s predicament is repeated throughout
Bosnia and Herzegovina, where people who were displaced but did not own property prior to the war are now left to live in often appalling conditions.