Significant rise of illegal entries to Bosnia in 2018
Bosnian authorities said migrants attempting to enter the country illegally increased by 500 percent last year, compared to 2017.
Bosnian authorities said migrants attempting to enter the country illegally increased by 500 percent last year, compared to 2017.
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.
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.
A Croatian NGO working with migrants has filed a complaint against police who it claims used excessive force and violence against migrants, illegally pushing them back at the border with Bosnia.
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.
Authorities in Croatia have imposed a 24-hour ban on broadcasts by some local TV stations following an episode some weeks ago in which participants in a talk show openly incited hate against migrants.
On the border between Bosnia and Croatia, hundreds of migrants trying to reach Croatia have clashed with the police.
A registered 19,500 migrants have entered Bosnia since the start of 2018 with the majority staying in the north-west. Over the same period, border police blocked the access of 13,000 foreigners.