edited: APC photo: APC Nairobi, February 20– APC representatives participated in a gathering of sister organizations working with vulnerable refugees and local children on other continents, held in February in Kenya. Africa has been chosen as a…
Read moreSurvey on the situation of unaccompanied minor migrants in Serbia
author: Ema Sokolovic photo: | Foto: APC Belgrade,February 1 - Ema Sokolović, a journalist at the Beta News Agency in cooperation with Asylum Protection Center, conducted a survey on the situation of unaccompanied minors in Serbia in November and December. She visited…
Read moreWeekly 10 migrants cross the Hungarian border
edited:APC photo: APC Horgoš, January 31 - According to information from the field, Hungary reduced the number of refugees and migrants allowed to enter their territory. Hungary at two border crossings formally receives 5 refugees within a week, meaning only 10 refugees…
Read moreFamily of deceased Afghan girl filed criminal complaint against Croatian MUP
Prepared:APC Photo: APC , Guardian Zagreb,December 19 - Family of Afghan girl Madina Husina, who died on the railway track at the border between Croatia and Serbia, filed a criminal complaint against unknown perpetrators, police officers of Croatian MUP. The filing…
Read moreAPC: Police to tell if an investigation has been launched into the railway death of six year old Medina
author: BETA | photo: BETA Asylum Protection Center (APC) asked the Border Police of Serbia to answer whether an investigation was launched into the death of a six year old Afghan girl on the border with Croatia, and where she…
Read moreHow Croatian Police drove little Medina to death on the line between two borders?
Prepared: APC Photo: APC Belgrade,December 1 – Another child has lost her life on the difficult refugee path to one of the promised countries in Europe. Six year old Medina, a girl from a large Afghan family, was left ten days…
Read moreMigrants who are outdoors in the vicinity of Sid are hungry and cold
Belgrade, November 26 - Refugee and Migration Commissioner Vladimir Cucic said that it is true that in the surrounding areas of Sid some citizens are having problems with the migrants who are openly waiting to enter the European Union, but…
Read moreMigrant smugglers offering services through small ads
Source:Politika photo: APC Belgrade, November 6 - More than 5,700 migrants have been accounted for in Serbia since the beginning of the year, of which almost 4,800 have expressed their intention to seek asylum, while against more than one…
Read moreMeeting in Vienna: The Refugee route through the Balkans continues to be in function
source: Beta photo: Beta Vienna, October 3rd - At the Vienna international conference entitled "Balkan Refugee route to European solidarity", involving the largest humanitarian organization from Austria, Germany, Macedonia, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and Serbia; Rados Djurovic Director of…
Read moreEU countries in 2016 granted refugee status to 700,000
Edited: APC | Photo: AP BRUSSELS April 29 - Last year, EU member states approved refugee status or some other form of protection to more than 700,000 people, mostly Syrians, the Eurostat Statistics Agency said in a statement. This is more…
Read moreArezo and Adnan painfully cope with pain
Prepared:APC Illustration: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir Belgrade, April 19 – With the closing of the Balkan route about 8000 people from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan...are stuck in Serbia. About 6000 are in reception and asylum centers, far from the public's eyes. And…
Read moreJan’s insoluble will and temporary home
author: APC | photo: APC Belgrade, February 8th – We met Jan in the park near the bus station in Belrade almost half a year ago. He had been in Serbia for three months and during that time he tried to cross…
Read moreHow Zahid’s hopes sank into tears
author: APC | photo: APC Belgrade, February 5 – Zahid is a tall man. Your eyes immediately drawn to his large hands. He says he trained volleyball in Pakistan and was a good athlete. He was okay in school, he dedicated more time…
Read moreBerlin offers refugees 1,200 euros to leave
Source:Politika autgor: Nenad Radicevic photo: Reuters/Dominik Ebenbisher) Frankfurt, Heidelberg March 7th– According to German right-wing politicians and many international media continue to point out that Angela Merkel leads to a liberal migrant policy, this election year in German evidence will…
Read moreAisha’s first day of school
author: APC | Photo: APC Belgrade, January 25 –Aisha is seven years old and for a few days now, she can not sit still in her refugee room in the asylum center in Krnjaca. Walking with her father and mother, showing them drawings…
Read moreExpelled from the EU, Desperate Syrians return to Syria
Source: Ve?ernji list Au.htor: Hassan Haidar Diab 23.1.2017 -"I wish to return to Syria, because this kind of humiliation is not necessary. I regret leaving. I spent all that I had, more than 6 thousand dollars and now I'll…
Read moreMigrants complain about accommodation in Obrenovac barracks
Source: N1 Photo: N1 Belgrade, January 19- In the barracks in Obrenovac, 225 places are filled, which is the limit of the facility in which journalists' teams are forbidden to enter. Three young boys from Pakistan found out…
Read moreThe ruin of Europe in a mirror
"Securing Borders" is in face a ware the EU is waging against refugees left by the dishonesty of the Sea and Balkan Routes. And Europe would not be what it is if it had not accepted refugees for decades,"…
Read moreIn Adasevci – Women refugees, suffering without a voice
author: APC | photo: APC Adaševci, December 24 – It's hard to understand how hard the refugee journey is and how much trouble is faced by people fleeing from their countries of violence, deaths, who cross thousands of kilometers, across mountains, in unstable…
Read moreThousands of Refugees stuck in Serbia – Limb with villages
Source: DW | author: Nemanja Rujevic photo: Nemanja Rujevic Belgrade, November 29 - Thousands of refugees are stuck in Serbia - They can not go forward, they will not go back. Officially camps are arranged enough to receive everyone. Unofficially, the centers are in…
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 moreHamed’s refugee journey for a quarter of a century
author: APC | photo: APC Adaševci, October 25 – Hamed is 33 years old and has spent majority of his life as a refugee. 25 years ago, he escaped with his family from Afghanistan, and since then he has been searching for shelter.…
Read moreEU countries have taken only 5,651 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy
prepared: APC Photo: | Photo: AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis October 15 - A year after the agreement that 160,000 refugees from Greece and Italy will be relocated to other EU member stated by September 2017, the data is dissuasive. For a year, only 5,651…
Read moreEU gave 40 million euros in grants to Serbia
prepared by APC photo: | Južne vesti Belgrade, September 30 - Since September 2015, the European Union has given 40 million Euros of grants to support Serbia in managing refugee and migrant flows, the EU Delegation in Belgrade announced. More than 10.7 million…
Read moreRefugees in Serbia – They can’t move forward, and going back is not an option
author: APC | photo: APC Bogovadja, October 20 – The borders are closed for refugees. Borders of Turkey, through Bulgaria, Macedonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania are guarded by police officers, soldiers, dogs, helicopters, reinforced fences, with the announcement of new means of protection...Thousands…
Read moreSmugglers know the way to Serbia
izvor: DW | autor: A Andrejev / G. Papako?ev foto: dpa D.Savic Bulgaria fears a tide of refugees Now that the western Balkan route is closed, refugees are increasingly trying to reach the EU via its eastern Bulgarian border. The government in…
Read moreDjurovic: The situation is tough, but we need to show our humanity
Izvor: Tanjug Foto: Tanjug BELGRADE, July 16- Director of Asylum Protection Center Rados Djurovic assessed today that the situation regarding migrants is very difficult and that Serbia can not be left to itself, but also pointed out that no…
Read moreAustria raises four fences on the border with Slovenia
Priredio: APC LJUBLJANA, July 11 – The Austrian government approved a plan according to which protective guard rails at four border crossings with Slovenia will be installed in the province of Carinthia, which is justified by the possibility of potential…
Read moreFRONTEX: The number of refugees in Europe has fallen since April, with the largest number going to Italy
prepared by: APC Photo: Gety images/AFP/L.Goluliamaki PARIS, July 12 (Reuters) - The number of illegal migrants entering Europe has fallen since April after the European Union sealed a deal with Turkey to halt flows across the Aegean Sea, the border…
Read moreVisegrad Group: Protection of the Hungarian Border on the Balkan Route a Priority
Source: Tanjug Warsaw July 11- Ministers of Internal Affairs of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries, represented by the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia said today after a meeting in Warsaw that the migration crisis can be solved only with…
Read moreInternational Refugee Day: 65 million forcibly displaced in the world
Geneva, June 20 2016. Record 65.3 million people displaced, often face barriers: UNHCR A record 65.3 million people were uprooted worldwide last year, many of them fleeing wars only to face walls, tougher laws and xenophobia as they reach borders,…
Read moreRefugees at the Hungarian border: Despair at the door of Europe
author: APC | photo: APC Kelebija, May 29– When we saw, what we guessed, was a thirty five year old man, with a four year old boy who he held firmly, he hurried to meet us with a smile on his face.…
Read moreRefugees stuck in Serbia – Life on Hold
author: APC | photo: APC | Krnjaca, Preševo, Sjenica, May 22 – When our translator Saker, in Arabic addressed the fifty year old woman who sat alone in the corner of the Asylum Center in Krnjaca, she immediately began to cry. With the…
Read moreStranded on the Serbian-Hungarian border
Reške, May 14 - Ahmed with his friends, cooks water in a metal pot. Their campfire is located in Serbia, just a few steps from a barbed wire barrier in front of the border with Hungary. Ahmed, who was a…
Read moreHow life betrayed young Syrian boy Riad
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…
Read moreIn Belgrade’s Parks, Refugees again need our help
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…
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 moreIdomeni – the first slums of the European Union
Idomeni, april 11 - Every morning, three or four buses arrive in Idomeni. They park at the beginning of the asphalt road leading to the refugee camp and - wait. In the afternoon they drive onwards, by then they are…
Read moreThe fate of a boy Nur from Deir ez-Zora and his first ID card
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…
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