At the panel of the Bioethics Society of Serbia - Asylum seekers in Serbia and Serbian asylum seekers in Europe, which will be held on February 21st, 2014 with the beginning at 7 PM at the Belgrade Youth Centre, will…

SOURCE : Danas 13. 02.2014. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann demanded from the federal government in Berlin to take measures to limit the number of asylum seekers from former Yugoslav countries and Albania. Herrmann said that there is a "mass…

On territory of municipalities of Presevo and Bujanovac in the border area with Macedonia, 6000 illegal migrants were prevented from entering Serbia in 2013, and more 749 were caught in transit, said the Head of the Border Police for Foreigners…

On February 13, 2014 the Asylum Protection Center organized Asylum Corner at the Youth Club in collaboration with the Elementary School "Mile Dubljevic" and Cultural Center "Hadzi Ruvim" from Lajkovac, and with the support of the Asylum Center in Bogovadja.…

Source : B 92  11. 02. 2014. Police Department in Kragujevac announced that A.M. (28) from Vrnjacka Banja was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime of human trafficking in Arandjelovac on February 11, 2014.As stated in the announcement,…

Ministry of Internal Affairs of Germany announced that, according to data released by the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees on February 7th, 2014, Serbia again was the first in the total number of asylum applications in January 2014.From…

Due to the expiration of the Stockholm Programme at the end of 2014, the European Council will adopt in June strategic guidelines indicating the way forward in the area of Justice and Home Affairs in the EU. In the context…

Source: ECRE 07.02.2013. The resolution calls on EU Member States to distinguish immigration policies from the healthcare, education and prosecution of crimes against undocumented women migrants. Such a distinction would enable this group to access their fundamental rights regardless of…

Source : The Guardian 05.02.2014. Small change of the Afghan criminal law will have a huge consequences in country where 'honour' killings and forced marriage are rife. The new Afghan law will allow men to physically attack their wives, children,…

Source : Večernje novosti 03.02.2014. EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, on the return of the visa regime: SOME STATES HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED THE POSSIBILITY OF SUSPENSION.The European Commission has not yet received a formal request from some of…

All capacities in the centers for asylum seekers were filled at the end of January, 2014. Because of winter, refugees from Syria decide to stay longer in Serbia, and if we do not register them, they come in danger of…

Source: Pobjeda  03.02.2014. Center for asylum seekers, as the first of its kind in Montenegro, is open in Spuz on February 3rd, 2014."Montenegro, as a country that borders with the European Union (EU), since Croatia joined the EU in mid…

In the Annual Report for 2013 of the international organization Human Rights Watch about the situation of human rights in the member states of the European Union is stated that xenophobia, racism and discrimination still represent a serious problem in…

Creative workshop of making hairstyles, in which participated asylum seekers from Banja Koviljaca and children from the Home for Children "Vera Blagojevic", was organized on January 22nd, 2014. Two asylum seekers who have participated in workshop were professional hairdressers in…

Source : Tanjug 28. January 2014. The Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migrations and the police organized an action between the night and morning on January 27th and January 28th, 2014, in which they accommodated around 150 asylum seekers who…

Source : B 92  28. January  2014.Three asylum seekers due to tuberculosis and frostbite, after spending a night in the woods outside the Asylum Center in Bogovadja, have been admitted to the Valjevo hospital on January 28th, 2014.The Serbian Commissariat for…

The first person from Eritrea has frostbite on his hands and feet - he is feeling well, has no amputations, has received proper medication. He have a paper-confirmation of intent to seek asylum.The second person refuses to say where he…

Source: B  92 28.01.2014. New problems for asylum seekers in Serbia. Because of tuberculosis, asthma and frostbite, three asylum seekers were admitted in Valjevo hospital after they spent the night in the woods near Bogovodja. These are asylum seekers who…

Source: Al Jazeera 24. January  2014. The first days of 2014 have shown that Serbia is still a country of transit for a large number of asylum seekers, mainly from Syria, but also from Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia.Due to the…

On January 21st, 2013, police of Nis has discovered 2 vehicles with 22 illegal migrants from Eritrea, Afghanistan and Syria, and has arrested one person on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of illegal border crossing and people smuggling,…

Source : RTS  22.01.2014. On January 22nd, 2014, residents of Banja Vrujci, revolted by the akt of asylum seekers, blocked the road Mionica - Ljig for one hour. Asylum seekers have found accomodation in one of the villas in Banja…

In a collaboration with the Primary School "Mile Dubljevic" and cultural center "Hadzi Ruvim", the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) has organized Asylum Corner in the Youth Club on January 30, 2014. The pupils of the seventh grade and…

SOURCE: B92 27.November 2013. Residents of the village Skela blocked the road at Obrenovac on November 27th, 2013, after arrival of 2 buses with asylum seekers for which there was no room in the Center for asylum seekers in Bogovadja.The…

Source: Večernje novosti 25.November  2013. On November 25th, 2013, Serbian government designated a facility in Obrenovac in the Poljacki kraj bb – Usce street to serve for temporary accommodation and provision of basic living conditions for persons seeking asylum in…

Source: Euro Activ 20. novembra 2013. The European Commission indirectly warned Greece and Bulgaria to stop turning down Syrian refugees at their borders with Turkey, after the UN issued a similar call just a few days before. Greece and Bulgaria…

Video from the press conference held on November 18th, 2013, in which was sent an appeal to the Government of the Republic of Serbia to immediately respond and resolve the humanitarian crisis in Bogovadja.

The Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) organized a fair of cultures in Lajkovac on April 14th, 2014, as a part of the final activities of the project "Improvement of the system of asylum protection in Serbia", financed by the…

One more person from Syria has received asylum in Serbia in July 2013. Once again, as in all previous cases when the asylum was granted in Serbia, Syrian was represented by the Asylum Protection Centre (APC / CZA).Since he was…

The aim of the research conducted by the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) which was presented in the publication "The asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Serbia" is to highlight the new and rather unknown side of migration and…

Source: Deutsche Welle 16.08.2013. Only in July 2013, 9,500 people requested asylum in Germany. That's almost twice as much as in the same month last year. German authorities are concerned. Most of asylum seekers comes from Chechnya, but there are…

Source: Dan 13.avgust 2013. .On August 13th, 2013, Albanian police have arrested 43 Pakistanis and Moroccans near the town of Gjirokastra, who planned to illegally cross the border with Montenegro, in order to proceed to Western Europe. According to local…

Source: Blic, BBC The Italian Coast Guard on August 10th 2013 found six bodies of illegal immigrants at a beach in Sicily, which is believed to be citizens of Syria, while 100 people are rescued.According to Italian investigators, they probably…

Source: B92   13.August 2013. Routes for transfer of the illegal migrants to the countries of the EU are increasingly diverted to the east of Europe, indicates the report of the Austrian Interior Ministry.Researchers pay special attention to Subotica and…

Source: Deutsche Welle 11. 08. 2013. At the end of the fast of Ramadan at least 80 people were killed in a series of attacks in mainly Shi'ite areas of Baghdad. The targets were different and various, from cafes to…

Source : Al Jazeera 8.August 2013. Macedonian police claims that the number of migrants in this country is constantly growing, especially in times of economic crisis in Greece.Over Macedonia's territory every year a thousands of migrants crosses in a search…

Source : Voice of America In the end of July 2013. renowned photographer Sebastian Rich opened the exhibition of photos documenting difficult condition migrants from war countries are facing. Sebastian Rich calls himself "photoreporter at the right place at the…

Source: Politika   21.07.2013. Among those who seek asylum in Serbia and then continue their way to the EU, there are still many citizens of Syria and Somalia, but more and more of them are coming from Sudan and Mali.…

Source : Banjaluka.com   18. July  2013. Number of asylum applications from Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2013 was higher by 13 percent compared to April 2013, according to the latest data of European Agency for External Borders (Frontex) in…

Source: RTS 16. July 2013. The fugitive former associate of the Central Intelligence Agency, Edward Snowden applied for a temporary asylum in Russia on July16th2013, said the famous Russian lawyer Anatoly Kučerena.Kučerena, participated in the last week held meeting of…

Source : Strategic Culture Foundation 16. July 2013. Since the ouster of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on July 3rd 2013 the general insecurity in the country is caused by due to by numerous attacks on Egyptian Christians, the Copts.Since the…