author: APC | photo: APC Adaševci, December 24 – It's hard to understand how hard the refugee journey is and how much trouble is faced by people fleeing from their countries of violence, deaths, who cross thousands of kilometers, across mountains, in unstable…
Read moreThousands of Refugees stuck in Serbia – Limb with villages
Source: DW | author: Nemanja Rujevic photo: Nemanja Rujevic Belgrade, November 29 - Thousands of refugees are stuck in Serbia - They can not go forward, they will not go back. Officially camps are arranged enough to receive everyone. Unofficially, the centers are in…
Read moreThe fate of a boy from Bangladesh injured in a car accident
Source: Prva.rs 17. novembar 2016.
Read moreDjurovic: Solve the problem, and not by limiting movement
,Source: Pres centar UNS 7. novembar 2016. The state should urgently increase accommodation capacities for migrants and improve hygiene in asylum centers, instead of announcing the restriction of freedom of movement due to the appearance of more refugee bodies, stated…
Read moreHamed’s refugee journey for a quarter of a century
author: APC | photo: APC Adaševci, October 25 – Hamed is 33 years old and has spent majority of his life as a refugee. 25 years ago, he escaped with his family from Afghanistan, and since then he has been searching for shelter.…
Read moreEU countries have taken only 5,651 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy
prepared: APC Photo: | Photo: AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis October 15 - A year after the agreement that 160,000 refugees from Greece and Italy will be relocated to other EU member stated by September 2017, the data is dissuasive. For a year, only 5,651…
Read moreEU gave 40 million euros in grants to Serbia
prepared by APC photo: | Južne vesti Belgrade, September 30 - Since September 2015, the European Union has given 40 million Euros of grants to support Serbia in managing refugee and migrant flows, the EU Delegation in Belgrade announced. More than 10.7 million…
Read moreRefugees in Serbia – They can’t move forward, and going back is not an option
author: APC | photo: APC Bogovadja, October 20 – The borders are closed for refugees. Borders of Turkey, through Bulgaria, Macedonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania are guarded by police officers, soldiers, dogs, helicopters, reinforced fences, with the announcement of new means of protection...Thousands…
Read moreSmugglers know the way to Serbia
izvor: DW | autor: A Andrejev / G. Papako?ev foto: dpa D.Savic Bulgaria fears a tide of refugees Now that the western Balkan route is closed, refugees are increasingly trying to reach the EU via its eastern Bulgarian border. The government in…
Read moreDjurovic: The situation is tough, but we need to show our humanity
Izvor: Tanjug Foto: Tanjug BELGRADE, July 16- Director of Asylum Protection Center Rados Djurovic assessed today that the situation regarding migrants is very difficult and that Serbia can not be left to itself, but also pointed out that no…
Read moreFRONTEX: The number of refugees in Europe has fallen since April, with the largest number going to Italy
prepared by: APC Photo: Gety images/AFP/L.Goluliamaki PARIS, July 12 (Reuters) - The number of illegal migrants entering Europe has fallen since April after the European Union sealed a deal with Turkey to halt flows across the Aegean Sea, the border…
Read moreAustria raises four fences on the border with Slovenia
Priredio: APC LJUBLJANA, July 11 – The Austrian government approved a plan according to which protective guard rails at four border crossings with Slovenia will be installed in the province of Carinthia, which is justified by the possibility of potential…
Read moreVisegrad Group: Protection of the Hungarian Border on the Balkan Route a Priority
Source: Tanjug Warsaw July 11- Ministers of Internal Affairs of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries, represented by the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia said today after a meeting in Warsaw that the migration crisis can be solved only with…
Read moreInternational Refugee Day: 65 million forcibly displaced in the world
Geneva, June 20 2016. Record 65.3 million people displaced, often face barriers: UNHCR A record 65.3 million people were uprooted worldwide last year, many of them fleeing wars only to face walls, tougher laws and xenophobia as they reach borders,…
Read moreRefugees at the Hungarian border: Despair at the door of Europe
author: APC | photo: APC Kelebija, May 29– When we saw, what we guessed, was a thirty five year old man, with a four year old boy who he held firmly, he hurried to meet us with a smile on his face.…
Read moreRefugees stuck in Serbia – Life on Hold
author: APC | photo: APC | Krnjaca, Preševo, Sjenica, May 22 – When our translator Saker, in Arabic addressed the fifty year old woman who sat alone in the corner of the Asylum Center in Krnjaca, she immediately began to cry. With the…
Read moreStranded on the Serbian-Hungarian border
Reške, May 14 - Ahmed with his friends, cooks water in a metal pot. Their campfire is located in Serbia, just a few steps from a barbed wire barrier in front of the border with Hungary. Ahmed, who was a…
Read moreHow life betrayed young Syrian boy Riad
author: APC | photo: APC Preševo,26. aprila – Riad is a teenager. He is only 17 years old. He's Syrian. He stayed among about twenty of 700 refugees, as many after the closure of the Balkan route were found in the reception center…
Read moreIn Belgrade’s Parks, Refugees again need our help
author: APC | photo: APC Belgrade,18-april – Since the closure of the Balkan route, a growing number of refugees are looking for a way to break into Europe, arriving Belgrade through Macedonia and Bulgaria and staying in parks around the bus station. Everyday…
Read more“What to do with refugees after the closure of the Balkan route?”
"What to do with refugees after the closuere of the Balkan route?" Asylum Protection Center held a newsconference At present, there are about 2,000 refugees in Serbia. The topic of today's press conference was dedicated to their position, legal status…
Read moreIdomeni – the first slums of the European Union
Idomeni, april 11 - Every morning, three or four buses arrive in Idomeni. They park at the beginning of the asphalt road leading to the refugee camp and - wait. In the afternoon they drive onwards, by then they are…
Read moreThe fate of a boy Nur from Deir ez-Zora and his first ID card
author: APC | photo: APC Krnjaca, 9.april – Nur only recently turned 18 years old, he is the fifth child in a poor Hajdar family from a village next to Deir ez-Zor in Syria controlled by ISIS. We met a frightened, depressed and…
Read moreRefugees stuck on the Balkan route: Waiting for hope
Preševo, March 23 - About 600 refugees, mostly from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, have been stuck in Presevo after the closing of the Balkan Route. Some of them were sent back from Croatia, some during their transit, where they did not…
Read moreThe influx of refugees to Greece is not slowing down
Athens, March 21 - The influx of refugees in Greece from Turkey is not slowing down despite the EU and Turkey agreement on curbing the flow of migrants, so the Greek SOMP's Coordination Body for the Coordination of the Migrant Policy…
Read moreA welcome to Asja and Jasemine at Primary School in Krnjaca
autor: APC | foto: APC Krnjaca, March 16 – Among the hundreds of tired, worried faces at the Asylum Center in Krnjaca, where refugees from Iran, Somalia, Morocco, Syria and Afghanistan, who decided as a result of the Balkan Route closure to…
Read moreAsja and Jasemin: In a school among peers from Belgrade
Belgrade, 16. mart 2016.
Read moreTense in Tabanovce – Injuries from wires and fights between migrants and refugees
Skoplje, March 10 - Forty refugees and migrants from Iraq and Afghanistan escaped from the camp in Tabanovci yesterday, which now houses about 1,400 people, who have been stuck there for days and weeks. Although there is no official confirmation about…
Read moreThe EU buried humanity
In bargaining for refugees, the European Union has engaged in dirty business with Turkey - in which there is no room to talk about the state of law. The Union also forgot about humanity and values" says Barbara Vezel Victories…
Read moreAPC/CZA workshops in the “Children’s Corner” in Krnjaca
Beograd, 22. mart 2016.
Read moreThe rules on the Balkan refugee route are changing, human drama’s remain the same
author: APC | photo: APC Šid, Belgrade, Preševo, March 4 – While in Ankara, Athens, Munich and Brussels they seek solutions for a refugee crisis that Europe did not see since WWII, at border crossings, people are fleeing, the living faces of the…
Read moreA joint solution does not exist, everyone is trying to save themselves however they know how
Skoplje, March 2 - Tensions on the southern border are rising hour by hour with the increasing number of refugees who are housed in a camp in the border village of Idomeni and who for days have no basic living conditions.…
Read moreImmigrants in Slovenia legally robbed by police: Sent back to Croatia without money
source |Novi list//www.novilist.hr//author: Ladislav Tomi?i? | photo: Denis Lovrovi? March 1-"Slovenian police are taking money away from migrants, as the amount of fines depends on the amount found on a person. If they find 120 euros, the fine is 120 euros. If…
Read moreVienna wants to seal off the Balkan Route
source|DW/http://www.dw.com/sr//author: Nemanja Rujevic February 25 -"When Austria practically seized the borders, the Balkan countries followed suit, because Greece as the weakest link, must deal with tens of thousands of refugees," Writes DW after the Vienna conference. Analysis and comments in…
Read moreSmugglers earned 3-6 billion euros for migrants
The Hague, 23 February - Criminal smuggling networks earned between 3 and 6 billion euros in the smuggling of migrants in 2015, Europol said today, warning that this number could double and even treble if the migration crisis continue to the…
Read moreMore than 100,000 refugees have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of 2016
Athens, February 23 – The number of migrants and refugees who arrived in Greece and Italy from the beginning of 2016 this week exceeded 100,000. By February 22, Greece itself recorded 102,547 arrivals on the island, since the beginning of the…
Read moreThe Sham family from Syria and their measures of luck
author: APC | photo: APC Šid, February 23 – Happiness or luck is really a relative thing. There is no where you can see this more than among refugees. For these people, happiness is to escape the difficulties awaiting them along their journey. Luck…
Read moreJuni from Iraq who travels alone with five young children gave birth in Adasevci
author: APC | photo: APC Adaševci, February 17 – Hejrat, only 5 days old, weight 2,700gr but today she began her journey in Adasevci with her mother and fiver brothers and sisters to Germany where she her father awaits. Our APC/CZA team, alongside Gordana…
Read moreREFUGEES: “Better prison in Europe than Iran”
source |DW/http://www.dw.com/sr//author: Dijego Kupolo Izmir, 13.02.2016. - Refugees continue to come in large numbers in the EU. Many come through Turkey from where traffickers are sending them on wards to Europe . In the Basmane market, people are turning to…
Read moreFrom Macedonia to Austria with the same document
izvor |Ve?er /http://www.vecer.mk// Skoplje, 3 february - Refugees in transit on the Balkan route will travel with a unique and standardized document that will be issued to them at the Greek-Macedonian border. This document will contain all necessary information, such…
Read moreDr Ali Al Jabri: Europe turned against refugees and failed them
With the increasing influx of refugees to Europe in the middle of last year, which coincides with the scary image of Little Ajlan drowned in the sea, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Syrians, Afghans and others believed that Europe had…
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