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…

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…

 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

author: APC | photo: APC   Belgrade, 21. january  – There is an increasing number of so-called economic migrants in Belgrade. Their numbers have increased since migrants who do not come from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq have been denied further travel from Serbia. Thats why the…

author: APC | poto: APC   Belgrade, 20. january  – Little Ferhad, barely one month old, who fell seriously ill on his refugee journey from Istanbul where he was born, to Adasevci where his little body began to surrender from fatigue and temperature, left the…

author: APC | photo: APC   Belgrade, 16. january  – At the Institute for Mother and Child in New Belgrade lies little Ferhad. He's an Afghan. He was born as a refugee. His mother, Sabra, gave birth to him in Istanbul. He is brought…

author: APC | photo: APC   Belgrade January 14 – Little Marko Sadat was born on January 10 around 5am in a hospital in Zvezdara. His parents, 21 year old Afghans, Atefu and Erfan, were very happy. He's their first baby. But it would not be…

On June 20th, 2014 as part of the project "Opening a dialogue in local communities between citizens and migrants on mutual tolerance and non-violence" conducted by the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) and NGO Atina, was held a meeting…

On June 17th, 2014 as part of the project "Opening a dialogue in local communities between citizens and migrants on mutual tolerance and non-violence" conducted by the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) and NGO Atina, a local area network…

Today in the afternoon hours, local citizens from Obrenovac and asylum seekers accommodated in Hotel in Obrenovac, but also those asylum seekers who were in the vicinity of the same hotel due to lack of accommodation, were transferred to the…

NGO Atina and the Asylum Protection Centre have launched new project aimed towards establishing a dialogue on tolerance between the local, Serbian population and asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia ...Presentation of a project "Opening dialog within local communities…

The Asylum Protection Center organized a roundtable called "Problems and Challenges in the Asylum and support to the reforms" in Belgrade on April 17th, 2014, as one of the final activities of the project "Improvement of the system of asylum…

A total of 2,055 people requested asylum in Serbia in the first three months of 2014, and most of them – 947, were Syrians, said the executive director of the Asylum Protection Center Rados Djurovic, adding that the asylum system…

IZVOR: Blic   11.april 2014. High school "Vuk Karadzic" and the Asylum Protection Centre APC / CZA, in collaboration with the Asylum Center in Banja Koviljaca, hosted the exhibition "Distant world in our city" on April 11th, 2014.Exhibition includes photos,…

On April 2nd, 2014 the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) in cooperation with the hair salon "Gracija" organized Asylum corner in which participated asylum seekers women from Bogovodja and women from Lajkovac. Asylum seekers women originating from Sudan, Eritrea,…

The Asylum Protection Center organized a public debate called "Asylum seekers in Banja Koviljaca - Challenges and Opportunities" in Banja Koviljaca on March 28th, 2014, as one of the final activities of the project "Improvement of the system of asylum…

On March 13th, 2014, the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) in collaboration with the Primary School "Mile Dubljevic" from Bogovadja organized the Asylum corner in which participated pupils from the fifth grade. Pupils were drawing various motives on the…

Panel of the Bioethics Society of Serbia - Asylum seekers in Serbia and Serbian asylum seekers in Europe, on which spoke Rados Djurovic, executive director of the Asylum Protection Center, Marijana Savic, director of the NGO Atina and Sena Maric,…

At the panel of the Bioethics Society of Serbia - Asylum seekers in Serbia and Serbian asylum seekers in Europe, which will be held on February 21st, 2014 with the beginning at 7 PM at the Belgrade Youth Centre, will…

On February 13, 2014 the Asylum Protection Center organized Asylum Corner at the Youth Club in collaboration with the Elementary School "Mile Dubljevic" and Cultural Center "Hadzi Ruvim" from Lajkovac, and with the support of the Asylum Center in Bogovadja.…

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…

In a collaboration with the Primary School "Mile Dubljevic" and cultural center "Hadzi Ruvim", the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) has organized Asylum Corner in the Youth Club on January 30, 2014. The pupils of the seventh grade and…

Video from the press conference held on November 18th, 2013, in which was sent an appeal to the Government of the Republic of Serbia to immediately respond and resolve the humanitarian crisis in Bogovadja.

The Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) organized a fair of cultures in Lajkovac on April 14th, 2014, as a part of the final activities of the project "Improvement of the system of asylum protection in Serbia", financed by the…

One more person from Syria has received asylum in Serbia in July 2013. Once again, as in all previous cases when the asylum was granted in Serbia, Syrian was represented by the Asylum Protection Centre (APC / CZA).Since he was…

The aim of the research conducted by the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) which was presented in the publication "The asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Serbia" is to highlight the new and rather unknown side of migration and…

Source: B 92   30.06.2013. The Republic of Serbia has put under its protection a Syrian citizen who left his country in order to save his life and to find a better tomorrow. In the procedure for receiving the status,…

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…

After Lajkovac and Belgrade, exhibition of works created by women and children asylum seekers, accommodated in the asylum centers in Banja Koviljaca and Bogovadja, was opened in the Center for Abandoned Children "Vera Blagojevic" in Banja Koviljaca on December 14th,…

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…

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…

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…

In 2012 Asylum Protection Center realizes interactive workshops with women and children in both asylum centers in Serbia – Banja Koviljaca and Bogovadja. After identifying the problems in the local community in Banja Koviljaca during 2011, strengthening on the one…

As the majority of asylum seekers are coming from the patriarchal societies in which men are always the ones who represent the family and make important decisions so women are always in the shadow, we believe that women and children…

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…

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…