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Hundreds of migrants continue to survive in snowy mountain areas, queuing in sandals in freezing conditions for a bit of food, sleeping rough in the woods or in abandoned buildings (Photo: Hannu-Pekka Laiho / International Red Cross)

Migrants in Bosnia: a disaster foretold on EU doorstep

The images of the dismantling and burning down of the Lipa camp in North-West Bosnia and Herzegovina have been all over the media in the last few weeks.

Hundreds of migrants continue to survive in snowy mountain areas, queuing in sandals in freezing conditions for a bit of food, sleeping rough in the woods or in abandoned buildings.

This humanitarian disaster is happening just a few kilometres away from the Croatian border, once more on the doorstep of the European Union.

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Silvia Sinibaldi is international cooperation and humanitarian director and Leïla Bodeux is migration policy and advocacy officer at Caritas Europa - a Catholic network of 49 member organisations in 46 countries working to promote the dignity of people in marginalised and vulnerable situations.

Hundreds of migrants continue to survive in snowy mountain areas, queuing in sandals in freezing conditions for a bit of food, sleeping rough in the woods or in abandoned buildings (Photo: Hannu-Pekka Laiho / International Red Cross)

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Silvia Sinibaldi is international cooperation and humanitarian director and Leïla Bodeux is migration policy and advocacy officer at Caritas Europa - a Catholic network of 49 member organisations in 46 countries working to promote the dignity of people in marginalised and vulnerable situations.

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