Return and Reintegration of Refugees from Serbia to Croatia Project
ADF’s 2000-2001 Return and Reintegration of Refugees from Serbia to Croatia Project encouraged and facilitated the sustainable return of Croatian Serb refugees from Serbia to Croatia. The program was funded under a grant from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration. Its objectives were i) to increase access to information and legal assistance for Croatian Serb refugees currently in Serbia; and ii) to further develop and support an existing, functional network of local NGOs in Serbia providing legal assistance services for the return and reintegration of refugees to Croatia. ADF’s project partners were the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia (www.helsinki.org.yu) the Humanitarian Law Center (www.hlc-rdc.org) and the Serbian Democratic Forum (www.sdf.hr). Under this program, over 21000 families or an estimated 63,000 people received legal/administrative assistance related to return and 64,676 families or an estimated 194,000 people received reliable information related to return and their communities in Croatia.