RESPECT Offers
Knowledge For Donation
by Ian Foster
RESPECT International is offering to donate a set of four reference books to a refugee community
in exchange for your donation of $20 US.
The four books, published by Youth Advocate Program International,
cover the topics of 'Stateless Children', 'Discrimination Against
the Girl Child', 'Children and the HIV/AIDS Crisis', and
'Child Soldiers'.
Youth Advocate Program International (YAPI) was founded in 1994 as a non-profit
organisation in the US; and opened its Washington, D.C. office two years later.
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Bosnian Refugee Situation
by Michael Logan
After 8 years of international funding, the future of hundreds of thousands of Bosnian refugees
and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) is still far from resolved.
The 1995 Dayton agreement, which ended conflict, specified that refugees should be allowed to
return home. However, latest UNHCR figures place 367,000 IDPs in Bosnia, and 372,000 refugees
across the rest of Europe.
Of the IDPs, many live with relatives. In Banja Luka, THE 2ND LARGEST CITY IN BOSNIA, it's
common for six people to live in a one bedroom apartment. Here, quarter of the 300,000 residents are
displaced. Those not fortunate enough to have family are housed in refugee camps.
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