Source: Reuters, Blic According to the international human rights organization – Human Rights Watch (HRW), during the suppression of illegal migration Greek police often arrest people based on their physical appearance, but later shows that only a small number of…
Read moreMigrants take care of migrants, but also of the Germans
Source: Deutsche Welle 13 May 2013. Migrants in Germany very often live without occupation and without perspective. But now, those who want can finish biannual course for social assistants. It is about education of a staff that is needed for…
Read more25 human traffickers arrested in Croatia
Source: Vijesti 15 May 2013. In mid-May 2013., Croatian Office for Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) has filed an indictment against three Afghans and seven citizens of Croatia for smuggling foreign citizens from Serbia to the countries of…
Read moreThe million people sought a better life in Germany in the year 2012
08. May 2012. During the last year, due to the crisis in the south and south-east of Europe, Germany has reached a record number of migrants: 1.08 million. Experts say that kind of situation could serve as part of a…
Read moreSerbia like the station of recovery for asylum seekers
Source: RTS 10 April 2013. Overabundance in the asylum center in Bogovadja is no longer a problem. Unlike a few months ago, when the migrants slept in the woods, the situation in the center is much better now. Unlike…
Read moreDjilas: There no logic in making the asylum centers on the territory of Belgrade
Source: Blic, Kurir 24.03.2013. Today Belgrade Mayor Dragan Djilas supported the citizens of Mladenovac in their efforts to not allow construction of an asylum center in their municipality, saying that the state needs to provide the specific capacities…
Read moreAnalysts: Regional solution is a must to curb illegal migration
07/03/2013 Illegal migration is a security threat to Southeast Europe and requires a regional solution, experts say. By Ivana Jovanovic and Miki Trajkovski for Southeast European Times in Belgrade and Skopje -- 07/03/13 A group of illegal immigrants warm up…
Read moreCriminal organization with a branch in Serbia has been broken up
Tanjug – 22. 02. 2013. Wiena - Austrian police successfully busted a criminal organization that was smuggling illegals in Europe and in past few years made a profit of more than 50 million euros. This organization had a branch in…
Read moreBogovadja: From asylum to the classroom
On Wednesday, January the 16th, for the first time in Serbia, the children asylum seekers from Bogovadja started to go to school. Jamal and Saleh are the twins from Somalia who became pupils of the first grade in the local…
Read moreInternational Migrants Day, Serbia continues to be a transit country
Source: B 92 Belgrade: International Migrants Day is celebrated around the world. Serbia is one of the so-called transit countries for immigrants on their way to the EU. (Beta, illustration) Prime Minister of Serbian Government and Minister of Interior Ivica…
Read morePublic debate: On the other side
„We are destroyed, but our desire is too strong" – the group of humiliated The fourth in a series of debates, called "On the other side" will be held on Monday 17 December in the (former) store "Belgrade", Knez Mihajlova…
Read moreCollecting the footwear and the clothes for asylum seekers residing outside the asylum centers
The Asylum Protection Center invites all friends, co-workers and humane citizens to help in the gathering of clothing and footwear for asylum seekers. During the winter months, due to the cold weather, low temperatures, asylum seekers are in need of…
Read more“The Far World in Belgrade” – Exhibition of Works of Women and Children Asylum Seekers from Banja Koviljaca and Bogovadja
On Monday, November 26th, the APC/CZA exhibition of the works of women and children asylum seekers accommodated in asylum centers in Banja Koviljaca and Bogovadja, was opened in the gallery Nea Pangea in Belgrade. On the exhibition products and materials…
Read moreSeek asylum in Serbia and disappear
Just during the last year at Macedonian border, 10 000 migrants were found - more and more popular route to EU through Croatia. Serbia could be under less pressure of illegal migration if the EU managed to establish effective control…
Read moreThe Culture and Fears of Asylum Seekers –The Municipality of Lajkovac
Exhibition titled titled "Far world in the small town" was opened in the gallery of KC "Hadzi Ruvim" in Lajkovac on Friday 26. of October 2012. The organizers of the exhibition are Asylum Protection Center APC/CZA from Belgrade and Art…
Read moreExhibition in Lajkovac – the Works of Woman and Children Asylum Seekers
Exhibition "Far world in the Small Town" was opened at the Cultural Center "Hadzi Ruvim" in Lajkovac on October 26. There were presented the works of women and children asylum seekers accommodated in asylum center in Bogovadja. Those works were…
Read moreWorking with women
One workshop from one of three program units (psychological empowerment, creative, health and workshops based on cultural differences) is once a week realized with women from different countries in the Asylum Centers, Banja Koviljaca and Bogovadja. Through psychological empowerment workshops…
Read moreColaboration with local community
Our organization is collaborating with the Center for Abandoned Children in Banja Koviljaca, health centers, centers for social work, police stations and local authorities of Bogovadja and Banja Koviljaca since the very beginning of the realization of workshops. The collaboration is…
Read moreAsylum in Serbia, Cucic names 270 asylum seekers
In Serbia reside approximately 270 asylum seekers. The stories about thousands of asylum seekers aren't correct and that causes suspicion, says Vladimir Cucic. So far, in Serbia asylum is granted only one Somali, Iraqi, and Egyptian Copt.
Read moreThe untouchables and asylum seekers
IN COLLISION OF DIVERSITY FRIENDSHIP IS POSSIBLE 'Politika', 2012/6/8 Movie 'The Intouchables' directed by Olivia Nakash and Eric Toledano, roles: François Kluz and Omar Si, duration 92 minutes, France, 2011. From French movie 'The Intouchables' There are many reasons why…
Read moreAsylum seekers in Vrbica
'A decision to opening a pending center for asylum seekers is not defenitely made' , told as Vladimir Cucic, a Commissioner for Refugees. In the village Vrbica, near Mladenovac, residents organized a road blocade due to arrival of asylum seekers…
Read moreSerbia is the fifth country in the number of asylum applications in EU
BRUSSELS - According to a recent report of European Commission, citizens of Serbia had been ranked fifth for the number of asylum seekers in the European Union, for the last year. Almost 14 000 citizens of Serbia were seeking asylum…
Read moreSolidarity doesn’t live here
Protest against the possible arrival of asylum seekers in Mladenovac "Blic", May 23, 2012. Center of Mladenovac was blocked today around 3 p.m with tractors, agricultural machinery and automobiles. This is a new form of protest from disgruntled residents because…
Read moreFortress Europe
Everybody is Equal. Some people are more equal than others. Since the public attention in the European Union is being systematically oriented away from the issue of immigration policy, and the European political agenda is drawing clear lines between the…
Read moreThe crossing point
Illegal immigration Would-be immigrants to Europe can go almost anywhere—for a price IT TAKES a few minutes to cross the Evros river, now the main entry point for illegal immigrants from Asia into Europe, but it can be frightening. On…
Read moreBalkan visitors
Asylum-seekers in Serbia and Kosovo THERE is something odd about seeing Afghans and Somalis stumbling about in the snow in western Serbia. Ivorians and Congolese are no less exotic in Kosovo. In fact, they are just some of the thousands…
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