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 moreĐurović: In 3-5 months it will be possible to introduce visas for the citizens of Tunisia, India and Burundi
Source: N1 10/18/2022, Belgrade Being a guest in Day Live N1, Radoš Đurović from Asylum Protection Center said the message of European Commissioner Ilva Johansson that in the case of non-compliance with the Union, the suspension of the visa-free regime…
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 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 moreDuring the 50 days of war in Ukraine, more than 4.7 million people left the country.
Izvor: K1 Televizija. Belgrade, 15.04.2022.
Read moreĐurović: Sistem informacija mora da se razrađuje.
Autor: Euronews Srbija Beograd, 30.03.2022. Radoš Đurović iz Centra za pomoć i zaštitu tražiocima azila rekao je za Euronews Srbija da sistem informisanja za ljude koji dolaze iz Ukrajine mora da se dodatno razradi, kao i da se većina onih koji…
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 moreĐurović: One million refugees from Ukraine is just the first wave in Europe, we appealed to the Government of Serbia to prepare
Source: Euronews Belgrade, 03/03/2022 - In just eight days since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, more than a million refugees left the country and went to the neighboring countries - Hungary, Slovakia, Poland or Romania. Radoš Đurović from…
Read moreSeveral hundred refugees from Ukraine arrived in Serbia
Source: RTS Belgrade 03/02/2022 -The largest number of people escaped from Ukraine to Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary. Several hundred refugees have also arrived in Serbia and for now are mostly staying at relatives and friends. Director of Asylum Protection…
Read moreHalf a million people have fled Ukraine since the intervention began.
Source: K1 Televizija Beograd 01.03.2022.
Read moreThe echoes of war: Migration wave gets increased
Source: Nova Belgrade, 03/01/2022 -As the bombs fall, victims are counted, but so are hundreds of thousands of refugees. It all sounds incredibly painful and familiar to us. The war in Ukraine, like any war, makes people flee. According to…
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 moreTV interview about the cross-section of situation in Serbia regarding refugees
Source: Televizija Vesti Belgrade, 01/11/2022-In a guest appearance on TV Vesti, at Dušica Spasić, the director of our center, Radoš Djurović, was a guest. He spoke about the current situation regarding asylum and migration in Serbia. At the same time,…
Read moreĐurović: Negative rhetoric toward migrants in Serbia on the increase since 2020
Source: Nova Belgrade, 12/18/2021- Serbia welcomes Migrants Day as a country on the border of the EU, through which the large number of migrants without regulated status pass and reside, and all this is accompanied by a negative attitude and…
Read moreThrough Serbia to a better life: The number of migrants is not decreasing despite the pandemic; this year 40,000 people entered the country
Source: Euronews Belgrade, 12/17/2021- The number of migrants in Serbia, despite the years of pandemic, has not decreased, on the contrary. The asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Syria and other countries via the Balkan route, which includes Serbia, still want to reach…
Read moreNew migrant routes do not pass by Serbia
Source: RTS Belgrade, 11/07/2021- Two days ago, the police again found 81 illegal migrant and took them to a reception center. Refugees are constantly looking for new routes, but they always go through Serbia. Due to the pandemic and the…
Read moreThe ‘People’s Patrol’ disturbed the people of Sombor: Posters and calls to lynch people who provided accommodation to migrants appeared
Source: Euronews Belgrade, 10/12/2021- The activists and sympathizers of the so-called ‘People's Patrol’ organized in Sombor a protest against migrants during the weekend. On their social networks and around the city, they taped the photos and names of people they…
Read moreThe people will flee from the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, if a new refugee crisis awaits us
Source: RTS Belgrade, 08/18/2021 - Executive Director of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Đurović, tells RTS that effects of the situation in Afghanistan, in the context of refugees, will be visible only in a few months. However, he adds, a massive…
Read moreWhat if the myriad of refugees from Afghanistan goes to Europe, through Serbia?
Source: Tanjug Belgrade, 08/16/2021 -The director of Asylum Protection Center says that after the Taliban took over Kabul, a massive influx of refugees from that country can be expected. According to Radoš Đurović, they primarily gravitate, via the Mediterranean, towards…
Read moreThere are more than 5,000 migrants in Serbia, many of them invisible to the legal system
Source: RTS Belgrade, Avgust 2, 2021 – Currently, there are 5,000 to 6,000 asylum-seeking migrants on the territory of Serbia, who are in camps or outside the provided accommodation, in informal settlements, primarily in the north of the country and…
Read moreBiased information and inactivity of those responsible are the reason for xenophobia.
28/01/2021 Belgrade, After incorrectly transmitted information in most mainstream media about the robbery in the center of Belgrade allegedly committed by migrants, the public and citizens felt threatened, and fear and animosity towards migrants, asylum seekers and refugees increased. Without…
Read moreCommissioner talks about violence and illegal expulsion of migrants by Croatian police for the first time
Source: TV Prva Belgrade, September 01, 2019 - Violence by Croatian police against migrants at the border has now taken on dramatic proportions, said Rados Djurovic, director of the Asylum Protection Centre (APC/CZA), in the Morning program on TV Prva.…
Read moreThe largest migrant center in Europe is now closed – how it will affect Serbia?
Source: RTS Belgrade, 11 July 2019 - Italian Minister of the Interior Mateo Salvini recently closed the country’s migrant center in Sicily, the largest one in Europe. Salvini stated in defense of this closure that the number of migrants in…
Read moreLarge number of minor migrants on the road through Serbia
Source: Al Jazeera Balkans Belgrade, Šid, 03 July 2019 - It’s all too common to see unaccompanied minor migrants arrive in Serbia, convinced they will be able to make it to Western Europe alone. Unfortunately, the migration crisis is nowhere…
Read moreDjurovic: The human attitude towards refugees is crucial in order to understand them and help them
Source: Radio Beograd 1 Photo: APC Belgrade, 20 June 2019 - On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Misa Stojiljkovic hosted Rados Djurovic in the morning program of Radio Belgrade 1 "Catch the Day!". During the show’s regular section "Question…
Read moreAPC southern team organized an integration event for youth and refugees in Bujanovac
Text: APC Video: APC Bujanovac, 14 June 2019 - The APC Preševo office organized an integration event in Bujanovac in cooperation with the cultural association “Dituria”. Young people from Bujanovac had the opportunity to meet refugees who are staying in…
Read moreĐurović: The biggest problem in Serbia is that we do not have accommodation for unaccompanied minor migrants
Source: PRVA Belgrade, 08 June 2019 - On June 7th, a young refugee was killed after being stabbed 24 times in Belgrade. Many believe this murder was allegedly an act of revenge for the victim’s complicity in the murder of…
Read moreRefugees remain for several years or even permanent, integration is a new step for Serbia
Belgrade, January 14th - Our country is still a place where migrants stay longer, due to their non-acceptance in most neighboring countries, Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Romania. Without a legally regulated position, they remain in the Balkans for several…
Read moreDjurovic: Migration can not be solved by unilateral acts
Source: RTS BELGRADE, Oct. 31 - Executive Director of Asylum Protection Center, Rados Djurovic told RTS that there is no global solution to the problem of migration. "Our position is like a buffer zone," Djurovic pointed out. Today, migration is…
Read moreDjurovic: About 2,000 migrants outside of reception centers
Source: RTS BELGRADE, August 26 - Rados Djurovic from Asylum Protection Center spoke with RTS that this year marked the news that a significant number of migrants circumvent Serbia's reception centers and that there are currently about 2,000 of them…
Read moreReligion and Migration should not be linked
Izvor: RTS BELGRADE, June 4th - Rados Djurovic from the Asylum Protection Center tells RTS that the warnings on the so-called "mosque route" are probably intended for political needs in countries where there is fear of Muslims. Neighboring countries, primarily Bosnia…
Read moreContrasts: Refugees and Migrants in Serbia
Izvor: Al Jazeere Balkans BELGRADE, June 1st - It has been two years since the official closing of the so-called Balkan Refugee Route. But, although in an incomparably smaller measure, the influx of refugees and migrants into the Balkans, and so on Serbia, never…
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 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 moreAsylum seekers helped in the areas affected by floods
SOURCE: RTV 23. May 2014. Asylum seekers who were placed in Obrenovac were among the first affected by the consequences of the floods, but as soon as the opportunity arose, they also came first to help.They were evacuated on Friday morning,…
Read moreThe new Law on Asylum
SOURCE: RTS 25.03.2014. How will the announced new Law on Asylum help to solve the problem of the increasing number of illegal migrants in Serbia? According to official data, the number of foreign nationals - migrants in our country was…
Read moreChildren of Lajkovac for asylum seekers peers
Asylum seekers children and their peers from the neighboring school have the opportunity to get to know each other through creative workshops or so-called Asylum corner.Asylum seekers are very sensitive social group. Children, whose number in Serbia was 700 only…
Read moreAsylum seekers ended up in hospital because of the cold
Source: B 92 28.01.2014. New problems for asylum seekers in Serbia. Because of tuberculosis, asthma and frostbite, three asylum seekers were admitted in Valjevo hospital after they spent the night in the woods near Bogovodja. These are asylum seekers who…
Read moreBogovadja: Asylum seekers still living in the woods
Source: Al Jazeera 24. January 2014. The first days of 2014 have shown that Serbia is still a country of transit for a large number of asylum seekers, mainly from Syria, but also from Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia.Due to the…
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