Source: APC Photo: APC 20 November, 2024 - We mark World Children's Day in Serbia amidst significant challenges concerning the rights and vulnerable position of refugee children who enter, stay, or pass through Serbia using irregular migration routes across the…

Author: Asylum Protection Center; Photo: Radio-Television of Vojvodina, Serbia's Ministry of Interior 12 November, 2024 Despite field data and official statistics from the Hungarian police indicating that over the past seven days, 800 individuals from Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and…

Source: Tanjug TV Photo:Tanjug Belgrade, October 24, 2024 – Radoš Đurović, Director of the Management Board at the Asylum Protection Center appeared on the "T.ačka RAZNO" broadcast on Tanjug Television, where he discussed current migration and asylum policies in the EU…

“This is a malicious and insidious attack on the autonomy and independence of each judge.” Alessia Peretti;EURACTIV.it; 23. October 2024; Euractiv is part of the Trust Project; Photo: As the government pushes back against court rulings, concerns about political interference and…

September 30, 2024 – In September, the highest number of testimonies related to the detention of refugees in police stations in northern Serbia since the beginning of 2024 was recorded. This practice is solely due to the lack of adequate…

Source: APC Photo: APC Novi Sad, 10 September 2024. godine: The Asylum Protection Center (APC) provided support to the Elmani family in the process of obtaining permanent residency in the Republic of Serbia. This is yet another successful case for…

Source: Blic TV Photo: Blic TV Video: Blic TV 7 July 2024 - With the adoption of the bylaw regulating refugees passports design and content, conditions were met for issuing these travel IDs for refugees. Aforementioned bylaw was adopted by…

Source: APC Photo: APC Belgrade, July 3, 2024 - Asylum Protection Center (APC) assisted another refugee in Serbia to obtain country's permanent residency and biometric ID card. Aforementioned legal assistance reflects continuation of the APC's initiated and established practice alined…

01 July, 2024 - The outbreak of conflict in Ukraine and the arrival of Ukrainian refugees in Serbia caught state institutions unprepared to systematically and effectively assist refugees’ reception and integration. The lack of a clear strategy and coherence among…

Source: APC Photo: APC Beograd, 27. juna 2024. godine - With the assistance of the Asylum Protection Center (APC), another refugee has received permanent residency and a Serbian biometric identity card. APC initiated and established the practice of issuing biometric…

Photo: europa.rs Belgrade, June 25, 2024 - Ivica Dacic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Serbia, together with the Ilva Johansson, the European Union Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, signed the agreement between the Republic of…

Source: RTS Photo: RTS Video: RTS Belgrade, June 20, 2024 - Radoš Đurović from the Asylum Protection Center (APC) says for the Serbia Radio Television Daily News (RTS Dnevnik), that in the last 10 years, number of internally displaced people…

Source: APC 04 June, 2024 - The Refuge/Utočište, social enterprise of the Asylum Protection Center (APC), employs refugees’ youth, single mothers and tries to bring these and other vulnerable groups of refugees closer to the Serbian local community. The idea…

Source: APC Photo: APC Belgrade, April 15, 2024- Today, the Serbian authorities handed over the first Serbian passport to a refugee who came to Serbia as a minor without parents in 2018, fleeing from Afghanistan due to the danger to…

Source: APC Photo: APC Belgrade, April 4, 2024 - Today, the Serbian authorities issued the first biometric ID card for persons who got asylum with an inserted permanent residence. Until now, persons who got asylum had cardboard ID cards, which…

Source: APC Photo: APC Belgrade, March 29, 2024 - Today the first refugee received permanent residence in Serbia! The decision itself is dated February 19, 2024. Our legal and integration team helped Ayman from Pakistan to request/obtain asylum and now…

Source: APC Photo: APC   This year, according to the current law, Serbia cannot extend temporary protection for refugees from Ukraine, nor is it able to emulate and follow the example of the EU, where this issue of temporary protection…

Source: Tanjug Photo: Tanjug Belgrade, March 3, 2024- Radoš Đurović from Asylum Protection Center said today that it is necessary to change the existing legal regulations or adopt new ones, if the state wants to extend the measure of temporary…

Source: APC Photo: APC As refugees and migrants tell APC field teams in the border areas around Šid and along the Serbian-Croatian border, the current price of smuggling services from Šid via Croatia to Germany is more than 4,000 euros.…

Source: Council of Europe Photo: IMAGO/photothek   Strasbourg, February 22, 2024- “Across Europe, individuals and organisations are facing growing harassment, intimidation, violence and criminalisation simply for contributing to the protection of the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.…

Our bakery provides food and trains refugees APC Bakery is a separate sector in our organization (APC/CZA) dealing with food production and aiming to provide additional food rations to refugees and their children across Serbia. Among others refugees, APC Bakery…

Source: RTS Photo: RTS Video: RTS Belgrade, December 5, 2023- The President of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Đurović, told RTS that at least 50 people come to Serbia every day from the direction of Bulgaria and North Macedonia, and there…

Source: APC Photo: APC Date: October 28, 2023 Hungary pushed back a family of six from Syria four times in the last 7 days. The father was beaten every time by the Hungarian border police in front of his wife…

Source: APC Photo: APC Date: October 27, 2023 Work in the field is an integral part of the support that APC provides to refugees, and this is the best way to find out about their needs and problems, in order…

Source: APC Photo: APC Date: October 27, 2023 APC strives to provide our vulnerable refugees with adequate support and assistance, according to their needs. Among them there are also those who are particularly vulnerable and need special attention and help.…

Source: APC Photo: APC Belgrade, October 25, 2023- APC helps its beneficiaries in exercising various rights and services on the path of integration upon arrival in our country. In addition to helping them regulate their status and obtain documentation, we…

Source: APC, RTS, BBC FOTO: Armend Nimani/AFP Belgrade, September 29- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently stated that migrants attacked the joint border patrol of Serbia and Hungary using automatic weapons. He also stated that migrants have crossed the Rubicon…

Source: RTS Audio: RTS Photo: Getty Images   Belgrade, September 18, 2023- In the RTS show called Uhvati dan, the guest was Radoš Đurović from Asylum Protection Center. Đurović explains that due to pushbacks from the Hungarian side, enormous smuggling…

Asylum Protection Center provides free legal aid and assistance to Ukrainian refugees in obtaining temporary protection or in seeking asylum in Serbia, all in the context of raising influx of Ukrainian refugees (entering and/or temporarily staying in Serbia), inquiring how…

Source: APC Photo: APC Novi Sad, July 24, 2023- This time the APC team is in Novi Sad, delivering books to Ukrainian girls. Our local team has been helping this family, consisting of a mother and three daughters, since their…

Foto: Image Images/H.Galuschka The EU Court of Justice reached a verdict on June 26, 2023 that Hungary violated Art. 6 of the EU Directive 2013/32/EU on procedures for the recognition and withdrawal of refugee protection, because the access to the…

Source: Nova S, APC Video: Nova S   Belgrade, June 26, 2023- In the last week, there have been several incidents involving migrants. Asylum Protection Center especially emphasizes the vulnerability of the refugee population, which, in this situation is actually…

Serbia celebrates World Refugee Day with many challenges regarding the protection of refugees who come from different hotspots and are subject to different protection regimes, but also with the opportunity to arrange their reception and protection while they are in…

Source: APC Photo: APC Date: June 12, 2023   Our staff is helping Ukrainian refugees living in Serbia to renew their temporary protection status, after the government extended it for another year. Given the new bureaucratic challenges and apparent limitations…

Source: Tanjug, Politika   Belgrade, June 11, 2023- Every decision related to asylum and migration in Europe directly affects Serbia, since we are the last country on the border of the Schengen area, as Radoš Đurović, executive director of Asylum…

Decision on providing the temporary protection in the Republic of Serbia to displaced persons coming from Ukraine The decision was published in the "Official Gazette of RS", no. 36/2022 and 21/2023. 1.Temporary protection in the Republic of Serbia is granted…

Many refugees from war-torn Ukraine are coming, passing through and staying in Serbia. Of more than 148,000 refugees who entered Serbia since the beginning of the war, 27.782 people registered their staying in Serbia, while more than 1,164 Ukrainian refugees…

The Government of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Decision on amending the existing "Decision on granting the Temporary Protection in the Republic of Serbia to Displaced Persons coming from Ukraine" which was published in the "Official Gazette of the…

APC/CZA publicly appealed to the Government of Serbia to urgently make a decision on the extending of temporary protection for refugees from Ukraine, which expires on March 19, 2023, because there are still the same justifiable reasons why the existing…

Video: K1 Belgrade, March 15, 2023- As a guest on the Uranak show on K1 television, the director of APC/CZA, Radoš Đurović, explained the new trends concerning the migration routes through Serbia, which are connected with the entry of Croatia…