Sixteen migrants including six children were saved on the Pljesevica mountain, which marks the border between Bosnia and Croatia. They are all in precarious health condition after being exposed to freezing temperatures.
A group of activists from Switzerland visited western Bosnia in late December to provide assistance to thousands of refugees and migrants trying to enter the EU-member state Croatia from there. The conditions they live in in Bosnia are far from good, says activist Stefan Dietrich.
Half the refugee population worldwide are under 18, Caritas reports. 300,000 of these children and teenagers are without their families.
Many migrants are stuck along the Bosnian-Croatian border, as Croatian border police keep pushing them back into Bosnia. There are now reports that they have suffered instances of violence and theft by those authorities.
Croatian police found 39 migrants over Christmas. They were hiding in a small van. The overcrowded vehicle had entered the country from Bosnia Herzegovina.
Violence against refugee children at the EU's external borders is on the rise, says a new report from Save the Children. The organization's Meike Riebau spoke to DW about what minors experience at the bloc's frontiers.
Croatian authorities have denied a report that police are illegally pushing migrants back into neighboring Bosnia. Migrants are struggling to survive in makeshift camps as winter sets in and temperatures plunge.
Human Rights Watch has denounced that migrants in Croatia are pushed back to Bosnia by police officers who don't give them the possibility of applying for asylum.
Thousands of migrants stuck in northwestern Bosnia are facing tough times as the weather took a turn for the worse in recent weeks. Many migrants are staying in makeshift camps without heating or facilities.
Having purchased tickets to travel from Sarajevo to Bihac near the Croatian border, 146 migrants were stopped once they got to their intended destination and sent back to the Bosnian capital.
Bosnian minister for human rights and refugees Semiha Borovac has said that over 20,000 undocumented migrants had entered and been registered in the country since the beginning of the year, including 500 children.
On the border between Bosnia and Croatia, hundreds of migrants trying to reach Croatia have clashed with the police.