Bosnia and Herzegovina
After a decade working with populations affected by the Balkan wars, we ended our work in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001. In 2018, we returned to assist migrants and refugees escaping war and persecution in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
As new routes open in the northern Balkans, more than 4,000 migrants and refugees are currently sheltering in informal camps and squats along the Bosnian border with Croatia.
This is a new situation for Bosnia and Herzegovina, which before 2018 had not seen significant numbers of people transiting through the country as part of the so-called Balkan route.
They are coming from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and beyond. Their objective, as for all along the Balkan route, is to flee conflict and poverty in their countries of origin and search for better living conditions for them and their families.
Living conditions in the informal settlements remain alarmingly inadequate, especially as winter looms, and we expect people will be faced with the same cycle of problematic issues that have plagued other spots along the Balkan route.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Push-backs, violence and inadequate conditions at the Balkan route’s new frontier
Project Update
17 Aug 2018
Speaking out
MSF and the war in the former Yugoslavia 1991-2003
Report
10 Dec 2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina
MSF releases case study that reveals the organisation’s dilemmas to position itself in the face of the Srebrenica events
Report
1 Jul 2015
Kosovo
MSF says civilian control of refugee resettlement in Kosovo is crucial
Press Release
4 Jun 1999
Kosovo
MSF works to support increasing refugee numbers
Project Update
13 Apr 1999
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Eye-witness accounts of the evacuation from Srebenica and the fate of missing colleagues
Report
15 Feb 1996