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…

Niš, 04/08/2022 - APC/CZA has been providing legal, psychological and integration support to refugees in Serbia for 15 years. A particularly vulnerable group are unaccompanied children, whom we meet all over the country, very often in inhumane conditions, without the…

Source: CMS 05.04.2022 - Asylum and integration policies 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…

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…

Belgrade, 03/24/2022 - The APC/CZA integration sector strives to provide asylum seekers and refugees in Serbia with the opportunity to learn about local culture, the work of cultural institutions, to visit the theater, exhibitions and various cultural events, to become…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Belgrade, March 7, 2022 - Considering the constant phone calls and the interest of citizens in obtaining relevant information regarding the conditions of reception of refugees from Ukraine in Serbia, as well as the growing influx of refugees from Ukraine,…

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…

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…

Source: K1 Televizija Beograd 01.03.2022.

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Thirty-two-year-old Michael from Congo has been in Serbia for less than two years and would like to stay in our country because he feels safe here, speaks the Serbian language and tries to integrate into the Belgrade community. Upon his…

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…

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…

APC/CZA has been working for years to connect the youth from local areas where refugees reside - pupils, students, activists - and refugees themselves because we believe it is very important to create opportunities to meet, to exchange experiences and…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

07.09.2021. Belgrade, The period of transition and change of place of residence is a challenge for everyone, especially for refugees who leave been in a large collective reception camp and come to a new local community. Even when they speak…

Belgrade, 09/06/2021- One of the sectors of APC/CZA is food production, where part of the food is donated to refugees and migrants throughout Serbia. Among the children to whom we deliver food periodically and upon request are unaccompanied minors residing…

Subotica, 09/06/2021- The pandemic influenced everyday life of all of us and especially migrants, asylum seekers and refugees are made even more vulnerable and isolated. In environments with a greater social tension like Subotica, where the animosity toward refugees has…

Source: Nova Belgrade, 08/19/2021 - The crisis of migrants from Afghanistan threatens the whole of Europe, and the culmination will be if the refugees reach Turkey, says Radoš Đurović, director of Asylum Protection Center. Although the main messages of the…

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…

Source: Radio Slobodna Evropa Đurović: Serbia needs long-term plans for migration management Belgrade, 08/17/2021 - Radoš Đurović from the Belgrade non-governmental Asylum Protection Center says that it is difficult to assess whether the situation in Afghanistan will trigger a larger…

Source: Beta Belgrade, August 16, 2020 - The executive director of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Đurović, said today that the consequences of the crisis in Afghanistan, i.e. a possible increase in migration, will be felt in Serbia and the Balkans…

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…

Source: Blic Belgrade, 08/16/2021 - The Taliban arrival in power in Afghanistan, among other things, may also mean the arrival of a large number of refugees from this country to the Balkans, but we should not expect the migrant crisis…

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…

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…

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…

27/04/2021 Belgrade, The Asylum Office of the Republic of Serbia passed a new decision on family reunification in 2021. Unlike the case of family reunification from Afghanistan from last year, when six family members of Afghan citizens came to Serbia,…