Source: APC Photo: APC This year, according to the current law, Serbia cannot extend temporary protection for refugees from Ukraine, nor is it able to emulate and follow the example of the EU, where this issue of temporary protection…
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 moreEurope must end repression of human rights defenders assisting refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
Source: Council of Europe Photo: IMAGO/photothek Strasbourg, February 22, 2024- “Across Europe, individuals and organisations are facing growing harassment, intimidation, violence and criminalisation simply for contributing to the protection of the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.…
Read moreAPC Bakery provides food and trains refugees
Our bakery provides food and trains refugees APC Bakery is a separate sector in our organization (APC/CZA) dealing with food production and aiming to provide additional food rations to refugees and their children across Serbia. Among others refugees, APC Bakery…
Read moreSmuggling as the result of fences and refugees’ despair
Source: RTS Photo: RTS Video: RTS Belgrade, December 5, 2023- The President of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Đurović, told RTS that at least 50 people come to Serbia every day from the direction of Bulgaria and North Macedonia, and there…
Read moreThe APC organization provides help and support to refugee families
Source: APC Photo: APC Date: October 28, 2023 Hungary pushed back a family of six from Syria four times in the last 7 days. The father was beaten every time by the Hungarian border police in front of his wife…
Read moreAPC visits refugees and migrants on the field across the country
Source: APC Photo: APC Date: October 27, 2023 Work in the field is an integral part of the support that APC provides to refugees, and this is the best way to find out about their needs and problems, in order…
Read moreAPC helps the most vulnerable refugees
Source: APC Photo: APC Date: October 27, 2023 APC strives to provide our vulnerable refugees with adequate support and assistance, according to their needs. Among them there are also those who are particularly vulnerable and need special attention and help.…
Read moreAPC supports Ukrainian refugees in integration and communication with various institutions
Source: APC Photo: APC Belgrade, October 25, 2023- APC helps its beneficiaries in exercising various rights and services on the path of integration upon arrival in our country. In addition to helping them regulate their status and obtain documentation, we…
Read moreAPC claims that the policy of fences and pushback creates and strengthens smuggling
Source: APC, RTS, BBC FOTO: Armend Nimani/AFP Belgrade, September 29- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently stated that migrants attacked the joint border patrol of Serbia and Hungary using automatic weapons. He also stated that migrants have crossed the Rubicon…
Read moreKako rešiti probleme azilanata pojašnjava Radoš Đurović za RTS Radio Beograd 1
Source: RTS Audio: RTS Photo: Getty Images Belgrade, September 18, 2023- In the RTS show called Uhvati dan, the guest was Radoš Đurović from Asylum Protection Center. Đurović explains that due to pushbacks from the Hungarian side, enormous smuggling…
Read moreImportant info for Ukrainian refugees, APC helps in gaining temporary protection
Asylum Protection Center provides free legal aid and assistance to Ukrainian refugees in obtaining temporary protection or in seeking asylum in Serbia, all in the context of raising influx of Ukrainian refugees (entering and/or temporarily staying in Serbia), inquiring how…
Read moreAPC provided school books for refugee children from Ukraine
Source: APC Photo: APC Novi Sad, July 24, 2023- This time the APC team is in Novi Sad, delivering books to Ukrainian girls. Our local team has been helping this family, consisting of a mother and three daughters, since their…
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 moreAre the migrants in Serbia conflicted (and why)?
Source: Nova S, APC Video: Nova S Belgrade, June 26, 2023- In the last week, there have been several incidents involving migrants. Asylum Protection Center especially emphasizes the vulnerability of the refugee population, which, in this situation is actually…
Read moreWorld Refugee Day – only 6 granted protections by June in Serbia
Serbia celebrates World Refugee Day with many challenges regarding the protection of refugees who come from different hotspots and are subject to different protection regimes, but also with the opportunity to arrange their reception and protection while they are in…
Read moreAPC provides legal and psycho-social help to refugees from Ukraine
Source: APC Photo: APC Date: June 12, 2023 Our staff is helping Ukrainian refugees living in Serbia to renew their temporary protection status, after the government extended it for another year. Given the new bureaucratic challenges and apparent limitations…
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 moreDecision on providing the temporary protection in the Republic of Serbia to displaced persons coming from Ukraine
Decision on providing the temporary protection in the Republic of Serbia to displaced persons coming from Ukraine The decision was published in the "Official Gazette of RS", no. 36/2022 and 21/2023. 1.Temporary protection in the Republic of Serbia is granted…
Read moreThey are fleeing from Ukraine, and Serbia is their new home!
Many refugees from war-torn Ukraine are coming, passing through and staying in Serbia. Of more than 148,000 refugees who entered Serbia since the beginning of the war, 27.782 people registered their staying in Serbia, while more than 1,164 Ukrainian refugees…
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 moreAPC explains the new migration trends as well as the conflicts near the borders
Video: K1 Belgrade, March 15, 2023- As a guest on the Uranak show on K1 television, the director of APC/CZA, Radoš Đurović, explained the new trends concerning the migration routes through Serbia, which are connected with the entry of Croatia…
Read moreSmuggling – a consequence of the wall policy and defining of 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 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 moreThe first cultural workshops held in the elementary school in Kać
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Asylum Protection Center has played a significant role in helping refugees from that country. Providing new and relevant information, providing legal assistance, such as obtaining temporary protected status, identity card and obtaining…
Read moreAssistance in the education and integration of young refugees
Source: RTS Video: RTS Belgrade, January 19, 2023- Afghan Daud Aryubi and Syrian Khalil Kansor go to school in Belgrade together, and they were associated with each other by being refugees. They say that their friends in Serbia accepted…
Read moreMigrant crisis – who comes, who passes, and who stays in Serbia?
Source: RTS Video: RTS- Thursday at 9 Belgrade, 12/22/2022- Asylum Protection Center was a guest on the RTS show "Thursday at 9" together with representatives of the police and the academy, in an attempt to shed light on the…
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 moreĐurović on the increased number of migrants in Serbia, reception centers and the abuse of visa-free regime
Source: TV K1 Video: TV K1 Belgrade, October 21, 2022 - The number of registered migrants in Serbia has doubled compared to last year. In 2022, more than 86,000 of them were recorded and those are people from Afghanistan, Syria,…
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 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…
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