Belgrade, March 01 - As the APC team has found out in the field, more and more migrants are attempting to cross at the northern borders with Croatia and Hungary, in the past week. Groups of about 20 to 30 migrants,…

Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) organized a creative interactive workshop for graffiti drawing on June 17, 2018 at the Ciglana Club in Belgrade. The workshop was realized within the project LOVE (Law, Order, Value) - for migrants / asylum…

Asylum Protection center-APC, has organized a conference in Belgrade on 2-3 March 2017, under the name "What holds the future for Europe's migration and asylum? Sharing best knowledge and EU practice on integration of migrants and existing challenges in Balkan…

Asylum Protection Center APC/CZA together with the partners-BETA news agency and Public Policy Research Centre, are jointly implementing project LOVE (Law, Order, Values) to migrants/asylum seekers/persons granted asylum in enjoying rights without discrimination founded by the EU Civil Society Facility…

Would you like to help people in need? Would you like to support people who have found themselves in Serbia, escaping from war and violence? Would you like to spend your free time doing something useful for yourself and the…

On June 20th, 2014 as part of the project "Opening a dialogue in local communities between citizens and migrants on mutual tolerance and non-violence" conducted by the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) and NGO Atina, was held a meeting…

In the year 2000 United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution with which declared the African Refugee Day as the World Refugee Day on June 20th. World Refugee Day is celebrated in the memory of those people who were forced…

On June 17th, 2014 as part of the project "Opening a dialogue in local communities between citizens and migrants on mutual tolerance and non-violence" conducted by the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) and NGO Atina, a local area network…

Team of the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) was today on the spot: more than 170 asylum seekers who were accommodated in a camp in Obrenovac and its surroundings, were transferred to the primary school "14. oktobar" in Baric.…

SOURCE: RTV 23. May 2014. Asylum seekers who were placed in Obrenovac were among the first affected by the consequences of the floods, but as soon as the opportunity arose, they also came first to help.They were evacuated on Friday morning,…

Source: The Parlament magazine June 2014. It is the EU's collective responsibility to ensure migration is handled in a humane, effective and sustainable way.Soon after the sea started to warming up, the number of migrants and asylum seekers reaching the…

Source : Naše novine  21. 05. 2014. People from Algeria, Syria, Senegal, Tunisia, Niger, Congo and Afghanistan have seen on television images of horror that befell our country and applied themselves to participate in the cleaning and renewal.Asylum seekers were…

As in previous days, asylum seekers continue to unselfishly help the affected areas in Serbia. Organized by the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration 33 men, originally from Syria, Sudan, Mali, Algeria and Comoros, went today from the Asylum Centre in…

Asylum seekers who were evacuated from Obrenovac to Baric, and then on Saturday also evacuated from Baric, are located in the Asylum Centres in Sjenica, Tutin, Banja Koviljaca and Bogovadja.Asylum centers are mostly full, and Tutin has nearly twice as…

All asylum seekers, 33 of them, mostly women and children were evacuated from the school in Baric. Local people, about 100 of them, most of whom were elderly, sick and exhausted from Obrenovac were also evacuated. They came during the…

Asylum seekers have worked in Sabac all last night, in defense of the city from flooding. 85 of them evacuated from Obrenovac in Baric, originating from Cameroon, Syria, Mali, Iraq and other countries, insisted on providing assistance to their fellow…

Today in the afternoon hours, local citizens from Obrenovac and asylum seekers accommodated in Hotel in Obrenovac, but also those asylum seekers who were in the vicinity of the same hotel due to lack of accommodation, were transferred to the…

According to the report of the international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch - "Containment Plan: Bulgaria's Pushbacks and Detention of Syrian and other Asylum Seekers and Migrants", which was released a few days ago, the Bulgarian government has launched a…

NGO Atina and the Asylum Protection Centre have launched new project aimed towards establishing a dialogue on tolerance between the local, Serbian population and asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia ...Presentation of a project "Opening dialog within local communities…

The Asylum Protection Center organized a roundtable called "Problems and Challenges in the Asylum and support to the reforms" in Belgrade on April 17th, 2014, as one of the final activities of the project "Improvement of the system of asylum…

A total of 2,055 people requested asylum in Serbia in the first three months of 2014, and most of them – 947, were Syrians, said the executive director of the Asylum Protection Center Rados Djurovic, adding that the asylum system…

SORCE : Dnevnik 14.04.2014. On April 14th, 2014 the Special Court in Belgrade has pronounced the verdict finding sentenced nine of the ten persons accused of smuggling the illegal immigrants, Albanians, from Kosovo and Metohija, over the Tisa River to…

IZVOR: Blic   11.april 2014. High school "Vuk Karadzic" and the Asylum Protection Centre APC / CZA, in collaboration with the Asylum Center in Banja Koviljaca, hosted the exhibition "Distant world in our city" on April 11th, 2014.Exhibition includes photos,…

SOURCE: The Gardian 01. April  2014. Migrants and asylum-seekers detained in Greece are being forced to endure deplorable conditions, often with devastating effects on their health, according to a report from aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Doctors who have…

On April 2nd, 2014 the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) in cooperation with the hair salon "Gracija" organized Asylum corner in which participated asylum seekers women from Bogovodja and women from Lajkovac. Asylum seekers women originating from Sudan, Eritrea,…

The Asylum Protection Center organized a public debate called "Asylum seekers in Banja Koviljaca - Challenges and Opportunities" in Banja Koviljaca on March 28th, 2014, as one of the final activities of the project "Improvement of the system of asylum…

SOURCE: RTS  25.03.2014. How will the announced new Law on Asylum help to solve the problem of the increasing number of illegal migrants in Serbia? According to official data, the number of foreign nationals - migrants in our country was…

Mirjana Bobic In recent years there has been a permanent increase in immigration flows to Serbia (without Kosovo and Metohija) from various sources. One part stems from massive returns of Serbian citizens from EU in line with the Readmission Agreement.…

SOURCE: Tanjug  19.03.2014. Since the beginning of the year two Ukrainian citizens have sought asylum in Serbia, while ten of them inquired about asylum conditions, says Rados Djurovic executive director of Asylum Protection Center. Among them, he declares, there are…

Source :Deutsche Welle 20.03.2014. German Ministry of Foreign Affairs started an initiative for Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania to be listed as "safe countries of origin". Asylum requests from this kind of countries are being processed in…

Source: Blic  19.03.2014. Over the last 48 hours, Italian naval and coast guard vessels rescued more than 2000 migrants traveling in boats from North Africa. The migrants have been provided accommodation in a refugee camp in the island of Lampedusa.…

On March 13th, 2014, the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) in collaboration with the Primary School "Mile Dubljevic" from Bogovadja organized the Asylum corner in which participated pupils from the fifth grade. Pupils were drawing various motives on the…

A new report by the EU border agency Frontex shows that most persons detected crossing irregularly into the EU between July and September 2013 were Syrians. Syrians also submitted more applications for asylum than any other nationality. According to the…

Source : Euroactiv  10.03.2014. The Swedish minister for migration, Tobias Billström, has urged the European Commission to act against countries that do not follow EU rules when it comes to shared responsibility for accepting refugees. He said that 90% of…

The European Council of Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) together with 100 partners in 34 countries has launched Europe Act Now (www.helpsyriasrefugees.eu) calling on European leaders to protect refugees fleeing the Syrian war.To date, just 81,000 Syrians have sought protection in…

Source : Večernje novosti 06.02. 2014. In hotel "Berlin" in Sjenica and the former administration building of complex "Jelak" in Tutin, specially adapted for the accommodation of asylum seekers, currently reside about 70 migrants from all over the world. All…

Source: Vreme  26.02.2014.     AUTHOR: Mirko Rudić "Not everyone are racists in Serbia. Believe me: I was in Greece", says Marc from Congo on a fluent French. While standing in front of the hotel "Obrenovac", he recalls his trip…

Panel of the Bioethics Society of Serbia - Asylum seekers in Serbia and Serbian asylum seekers in Europe, on which spoke Rados Djurovic, executive director of the Asylum Protection Center, Marijana Savic, director of the NGO Atina and Sena Maric,…

Asylum seekers children and their peers from the neighboring school have the opportunity to get to know each other through creative workshops or so-called Asylum corner.Asylum seekers are very sensitive social group. Children, whose number in Serbia was 700 only…