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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreDetention 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…
Read moreSerbia 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…
Read moreIssued 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreAppeal 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…
Read moreSmuggling over 4,000 euros – the consequence of pushbacks and relocations
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.…
Read moreThe Court of Justice of the EU issued a verdict on the violation of the EU directive by Hungary
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…
Read moreRadoš 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…
Read moreThe government extended the temporary protection for refugees from Ukraine
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…
Read moreAn 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…
Read moreSmuggling – a consequence of the wall policy and defining Europe
Source: N1 Video: N1 Belgrade, March 6, 2023- In the show Global Focus on N1 television, the guests were Radoš Đurović in front of Asylum Protection Center, Ivana Dragičević, research journalist from Zagreb and Matthew Saltmarsh from UNHCR. They discussed…
Read moreAPC about the incident in Horgoš, refugee smuggling and the necessary solutions
Belgrade, 11/30/2022 - The migrant or refugee population in Serbia is again "in the spotlight" of the public at this moment. Unfortunately, not on a good occasion. It all started with a new armed conflict that took place in Horgoš,…
Read moreCamps for refugees insufficient, serious humanitarian situation
Source: RTS Belgrade, October 17, 2022- After two years of a lull due to the pandemic, the number of migrants in our country has increased in recent months. More than 86,000 of them have been officially registered since the beginning…
Read moreIncreased 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…
Read moreTrilateral 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…
Read moreAccess 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…
Read moreOver 17,000 people from Ukraine have registered their staying in Serbia
Source: Tanjug Photo: Politika Belgrade, September 25, 2022- Over 17,900 people from Ukraine are staying in our country, according to the executive director of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Đurović. He states that over 92,000 Ukrainians have entered the country since…
Read moreAbout 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…
Read moreMore than 16,600 Ukrainian refugees registered staying in Serbia
Source: APC Belgrade, 08/29/2022 - Apart from the Asian and African refugees, those from Ukraine have also been coming to Serbia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war, more than 90,000 people from…
Read moreGrowing number of refugees in Serbia; lack of accommodation
Source: Euronews Belgrade, August 23, 2022- More than 10,000 refugees reside in our country at any given moment, mostly from Asia and North Africa, and since the beginning of the year, in seven months, more than 65,000 people have passed…
Read moreGrowing tensions towards migrants/refugees in the northern Serbia
Source: Nova S The events in Subotica and the conflict between smuggling groups from 07/02/2022, which are disturbing the public, served many people to raise prejudices against refugees in Serbia. The real causes, pushbacks from Hungary, smuggling and the…
Read moreĐurović: 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…
Read moreGrowing number of refugees in Serbia; Every 78th person evicted from their home
Source: Tanjug, B92 Belgrade 06/20/2022- World Refugee Day is celebrated today, and as Radoš Đurović from Asylum Protection Center states, the number of refugees has been increasing in Serbia since the beginning of the year. The majority of them, as…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreIncreasing access to vaccines and education for refugees.
In Serbia, Asylum Protection Center launched a national campaign in 2021 to ensure refugees and asylum seekers could get COVID-19 vaccines. The organization is also working to protect migrant children and help them enroll in schools. When COVID-19 vaccines…
Read moreBRN 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…
Read moreSerbian Government Approved Temporary Protection for Ukrainian Refugees.
Belgrade 22.03.2022. - After the appeal of the Asylum Protection Center and after our address to the media and the professional and general public, Serbian Government passed the Decision on Providing Temporary Protection for Refugees from Ukraine, which entered into…
Read moreConference “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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreTo legally protect everyone who is coming from Ukraine to Serbia
Source: RTS Beograde, 08.03.2022. According to UN data, 1,700,000 people left Ukraine in 10 days. By mid-March, that number could reach four million. Warnings are coming of the possibility of severe humanitarian consequences. The path of refugees from Ukraine leads…
Read moreRefugees 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…
Read moreOnly 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…
Read morePushbacks report for Southern Serbia borders, first half of 2021
The practice of illegal expulsion or pushbacks of exiles is strengthening this year in the south of Serbia towards Northern Macedonia, and only in the first 6 months of 2021, according to the testimony of migrants, Asylum Protection Center documented…
Read moreReport on pushbacks on the northern borders of Serbia in 2021.
Illegal and mostly violent pushing of refugees back to neighboring Serbia, the country from which they entered, has been established on almost all northern borders that Serbia shares with neighboring countries. In the first half of 2021, 527 pushbacks from…
Read moreThe ECHR confirmed Croatia’s responsibility in Madina’s case.
In 2017, a little girl, named Madina Hussiny from Afghanistan, was struck and killed by a train after being illegally pushed back with her family by Croatian police to Serbia, without giving them opportunity to seek asylum in Croatia. Afterwards,…
Read morePushbacks 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…
Read moreReport on “Push backs” on the northern borders of Serbia in 2020.
Since the refugee crisis of 2015 and 2016, which represent milestones in the management of migration in Europe, and especially in the Balkans, there has been a tightening of border control, both the external borders of the European Union (specifically…
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