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The 94-page report, “‘Like We Were Just Animals’: Pushbacks of People Seeking Protection from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina,” finds that Croatian authorities engage in pushbacks, including of unaccompanied children and families with young children. The practice is ongoing despite official denials, purported monitoring efforts, and repeated – and unfulfilled – commitments to respect the right to seek asylum and other human rights norms. Border police frequently steal or destroy phones, money, identity documents, and other personal property, and often subject children and adults ...

Bosnian Foreigners Affairs' Service in cooperation with the police of the northwestern Una-Sana Canton have launched an operation Thursday morning to relocate the remaining group of migrants from the 'Miral' camp near the town of Velika Kladusa.

24 January 2021: A migrant living at the abandoned metal factory in Bihać bundles himself up against the cold outside his ‘room’. The snow that fell in Bosnia and Herzegovina at this year’s Holocaust remembrance day on 27 January covered traces of another humanitarian crisis happening on European soil. The European Union (EU) is turning back thousands of migrants, mainly from Asia and North Africa, who are stuck at the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. According to the Bosnian government, around 60 000 migrants have moved through the country since January 2018. The w...

Along the Balkan route, refugees and volunteers face growing hostility A policeman stands by as a group of migrants wait to be relocated during heavy snowfall at the temporary Lipa Camp in north-west Bosnia, near the border with Croatia, on 26 December 2020. Three days earlier, much of the camp was destroyed in a fire, leaving over 1,000 people stranded outdoors. (AP/Kemal Softić ) Share this page A policeman stands by as a group of migrants wait to be relocated during heavy snowfall at the temporary Lipa Camp in north-west Bosnia, near the border with Croatia, on 26 December 2020. Three day...

The situation of refugees at the EU's southeastern border remains dire. Many migrants hoping to reach the European Union have been turned back by Croatian police. Now they are holding out in Bosnia under very difficult living conditions.