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The Budapest Process and Serbia’s Efforts in Migration Prevention

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…

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The EU and the Western Balkans Entwined in Migration Policy and Reality

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…

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Detention of Women, Children, and Families in Police Stations Due to Closed Reception Centers in the North of the Country

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…

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Serbia signed a new Frontex agreement

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…

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Issued the first biometric ID card for refugees

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…

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The first refugee received permanent residence in Serbia

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…

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Appeal to expedite protection for Ukrainian refugees in Serbia

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…

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Radoš Đurović: The agreement of EU members to pay for not accepting migrants also affects Serbia

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…

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An appeal to urgently make a decision on extending the temporary protection of refugees from Ukraine

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…

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Increased number of refugees entering Serbia

Source: RTS Belgrade, October 4, 2022 - The war in Ukraine, inflation, sanctions and the rising energy prices pushed the issue of migration and migrants to the background, but the migrant crisis has not ceased since 2015. This year, the…

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Trilateral in Budapest on migrants

Source: RTS Budapest, 10/03/2022- The President of The Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, as well as the Federal Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer, held a meeting in Budapest, where one of the topics…

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Access to asylum has not been announced to be restricted

Source: Tanjug Photo: Tanjug Belgrade, September 25- Radoš Đurović, the executive director of Asylum Protection Center, explains that the public's eyes are currently focused on the treatment of people fleeing Russia, after the announced mobilization. Nevertheless, he continues, the asylum…

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About 10,000 migrants in Serbia- insufficient accommodation facilities, criminals getting involved

Source: Beta Photo:(BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/DS)   Belgrade, 09/07/2022- The executive director of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Djurović, said today that according to the center's data, more than 70,000 migrants have entered Serbia since the beginning of the year, and that there…

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Đurović: Less and less understanding for refugees in the developed world countries

Source: Beta, N1 Belgrade, 06/20/2022- The executive director of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Đurović, assessed there is less and less understanding for refugees and for solidarity in sharing the burden of refugees among the developed world countries, while the movements…

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The first ever research on Serbia’s COVID19 challenges in refugee health care protection published.

APC undertook and successfully completed the first ever country research on response of Serbian health system to the COVID-19 challenges in protection of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees that was conducted in parallel to similar country researches in N. Macedonia…

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BRN joins in demand to Croatian authorities for taking responsibility in Madina’s death !

Source: Balkan Refugee Network Date: 14.04.2022. The Grand Chamber Panel of the European Court of Human Rights rejected the referral request of the Republic of Croatia in the case of little Madina’s family. Thus, the judgement that the Republic of Croatia violated Madina's right…

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Conference “COVID19 Challenges in response to refugees in Western Balkans”

Belgrade 18.03.2022. - APC held presentation and public discussion regarding results of the first ever research conducted on response of Serbian health system to the COVID-19 challenges in protection of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, in Nova Iskra hub in…

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The Government urgently to raise Temporary Protection mechanism

Source: Tanjug Belgrade,  12.03.2022. BELGRADE: The Asylum Protection Center appealed to the Government of Serbia to adopt Temporary Protection decision for refugees from Ukraine, which would regulate their rights and their position while they are in our country. Thus, currently…

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The government to urgently make a decision on the temporary protection of the refugees from Ukraine

Source: Tanjug Belgrade, 03/12/2022 Asylum Protection Center appealed today to the Government of Serbia to pass an act on the temporary protection of refugees from Ukraine, which would regulate the rights and position of these persons while they are in…

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Refugees from Ukraine arrive in Serbia: We must be ready to receive at least 10,000 people.

Source: Tanjug Belgrade, 28.02.2022. -The number of refugees who will enter Serbia depends exclusively on the behavior of our neighboring countries Director of the Asylum Protection Center Rados Djurovic says that first refugees from Ukraine have already started arriving in…

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Only 14 people received asylum in 2021.

The European Asylum Office (EUAA) confirmed yesterday that over 106,000 people from Afghanistan and Syria have applied for asylum in the European Union in 2021, which is the highest number since 2016. Most of them had to pass through the…

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Pushbacks on the southern borders of Serbia in 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 brought significant changes around the world and in various aspects of life, and thus in migration. With the declaration of the corona virus pandemic, refugees in Serbia found themselves in an extremely unfavorable position, facing…

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