By Dragana Nikolic in London and Miroslav Filipovic in Belgrade

Olga, a 39-year old physiotherapist in Belgrade, can't sleep at night for worrying about her younger brother. Her family fled Pec in Kosovo following the outbreak of the war, but finding a new home has not brought an end to their plight.

Dragan, Olga's 24-year-old brother, was a policeman in Kosovo and is now sent on regular tours to the Presevo,

Period covered: July - October, 2000
The Red Cross of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Federation have encountered many challenges in the course of 2000, and have responded by adapting activities to meet the needs and the limited funding. While the planned 2001 programme will be scaled-down, there remains a need for funding this year to complete the pending activities.

The context

By Dragutin Hedl in Zagreb

European leaders gathering in Zagreb last week for the historic European Union, EU, Balkan summit were determinedly upbeat. French President Jacques Chirac said the summit "completed the reconciliation of our continent" started ten years ago with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The summit, which brought together the heads of state and government leaders of the 15 EU member states, Croatia,

Dear Ministers,

On the occasion of the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the OSCE last month, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) detailed violations of the Helsinki "human dimension" standards by at least three quarters of the 55 members of the organization.

We would invite OSCE Ministers of Foreign Affairs to take the opportunity of their meeting in Vienna to address some of the most acute and persistent problems of non-implementation of Helsinki

I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Child rights continued to be compromised in 2000 in Southeastern Europe, an area affected by repression, violence, displacement and economic recession. Simultaneously, the political situation

Introduction

1.DFID 's Humanitarian Mines Action Strategy , approved in late 1997 and implemented over three years to March 2001,seeks to enhance UK assistance for reducing the social and economic impact of landmines and other unexploded ordnance on developing countries.An initial progress report was issued in March 1999.This Second Progress Report covers subsequent developments.

Overview

2.The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use,Stockpiling,Production and Transfer of Anti- Personnel Mines and

Vienna, 25 September 2000. At a briefing to the OSCE in Vienna on 25 September, the International Helsinki Committee and its members committees from Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bulgaria, called attention to the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Balkans. The briefing took place as part of an EU-funded project in the framework of the Stability Pact.

EMOP 6136.01 - Food assistance to refugees, IDPs and social cases in the Balkan region
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