The Working Group examined 21 reported cases under its urgent action procedure. The Working Group also reviewed 505 newly-reported cases of enforced disappearances and information recently submitted on previously accepted cases from the following 35 countries: Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belarus, Cameroun, China, Colombia,

The Montenegrin initiative was launched by the UN refugee agency and partners to coincide with the annual 16 Days of Activism to Eliminate Violence Against Women, an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute in 1991. The 16 days began on November 25.

The father project, drawing on material

Montenegro is a south-central European country with a multinational population of 620,000, comprised of Montenegrins, Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Croats. Its political situation has been stabilising after gaining independence from the state union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006. A Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union was signed in 2007 and the process of accessing membership of the EU is intensifying.

Economy-wise, Montenegro has, in the last two years, been experiencing constant growth with a GDP increase of

Now, with the help of UNHCR's legal aid implementing partners, Catholic Relief Services/Legal Centre, the boy has a birth certificate - a legal identity that will allow him to enroll in elementary school this September.

Adnan is one of 4,338 Roma, Ashkaelia,

Summary: CHF 62,578 (USD 55,973 or EUR 37,926) was allocated from the International Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 4 December, 2008 to support the national

UNHCR representatives and government officials attended the closing ceremony on Monday at the Trudbenik Collective Centre, which was opened in 1993 to provide shelter for refugees arriving from other countries in the former Yugoslav federation.

The 65 residents of the last official collective still open in Montenegro have been moved to family apartments

In brief

Programme summary: In 2006 and 2007 the International Federation of Red Cross and RedCrescent Societies together with the Red Cross units of Kosovo achieved many of the planned objectives and initiated a number of long-term development issues, despite an invariable lack of funding. A high programme implementation rate of 89 per cent (expenses versus funding) shows that within the financial framework available, a maximum level of support was provided to the local

In brief

Programme summary: In 2006 and 2007, the state union of Serbia and Montenegro was dissolved, leaving two independent countries in its stead. The Red Cross Society of Serbia and Montenegro followed these political changes. The Red Cross of Serbia is considered the continuation of the Red Cross Society of Serbia and Montenegro, and going back even further, to the Yugoslav Red Cross while the Red Cross of Montenegro became the youngest member of the International Federation

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is mandated to analyse drugs and crime situations around the world. The present report is a contribution to that objective, looking at a region stigmatised for its role in heroin trafficking, human trafficking, and other forms of organised crime. It is based on data gathered though Member States' responses to the United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (CTS) and the United Nations Annual Reports Questionnaire (ARQ), as well as a desk review of the published