THEMATIC REPORT 2017 In Bosnia and Herzegovina, CTV Sarajevo’s clients are mostly internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were displaced during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. One person was classified as a migrant worker. TORTURE AND MIGRATION Figure 5. Legal Residence Status: Bosnia and Herzegovina 3% 97% IDP 97% Migrant Worker 3% IAN’s clients in Serbia are asylum seekers and undocumented migrants who have arrived in recent years, largely due to conflict in the Middle East. Only a minority, 8 percent, have claimed asylum in Serbia, while 92 percent are in transit, seeking to join family or apply for protection in the European Union. Most of them come from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and have experienced torture and ill-treatment in their home countries and in some instances at the hands of border guards too. Figure 6. Legal Residence Status: Serbia 8% 92% Undocumented 92% Asylum Seeker 8% page 14

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