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Asylum Protection Center APC/CZA together with the partners-BETA news agency and Public Policy Research Centre, are jointly implementing project LOVE (Law, Order, Values) to migrants/asylum seekers/persons granted asylum in enjoying rights without discrimination founded by the EU Civil Society Facility…

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…

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…

priredio APC   foto: Christopher Furlong Pictures | Getty Images Kate Lyons 18. july - The six wealthiest countries in the world, which between them account for almost 60% of the global economy, host less than 9% of the world’s refugees,…

Beograd, 16. juli - Reuters Serbian police and army will form joint patrols to protect the country's borders from illegal crossings of migrants mostly coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday. Around 100,000 migrants from…

priredio: APC    foto: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters Njujork, 15. july - Drownings in the Mediterranean killed two-thirds of the 3,694 refugees who perished while trying to reach Europe since January. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says it's the deadliest route worldwide.…

izvor: HRW    foto: David Maurice Smith Budapest, 11 july – Migrants at Hungary’s border are being summarily forced back to Serbia, in some cases with cruel and violent treatment, without consideration of their claims for protection, Human Rights Watch said today. New laws…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

In the year 2000 United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution with which declared the African Refugee Day as the World Refugee Day on June 20th. World Refugee Day is celebrated in the memory of those people who were forced…

Team of the Asylum Protection Center (APC / CZA) was today on the spot: more than 170 asylum seekers who were accommodated in a camp in Obrenovac and its surroundings, were transferred to the primary school "14. oktobar" in Baric.…

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,…

Source: The Parlament magazine June 2014. It is the EU's collective responsibility to ensure migration is handled in a humane, effective and sustainable way.Soon after the sea started to warming up, the number of migrants and asylum seekers reaching the…

As in previous days, asylum seekers continue to unselfishly help the affected areas in Serbia. Organized by the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration 33 men, originally from Syria, Sudan, Mali, Algeria and Comoros, went today from the Asylum Centre in…

Asylum seekers who were evacuated from Obrenovac to Baric, and then on Saturday also evacuated from Baric, are located in the Asylum Centres in Sjenica, Tutin, Banja Koviljaca and Bogovadja.Asylum centers are mostly full, and Tutin has nearly twice as…

All asylum seekers, 33 of them, mostly women and children were evacuated from the school in Baric. Local people, about 100 of them, most of whom were elderly, sick and exhausted from Obrenovac were also evacuated. They came during the…

Asylum seekers have worked in Sabac all last night, in defense of the city from flooding. 85 of them evacuated from Obrenovac in Baric, originating from Cameroon, Syria, Mali, Iraq and other countries, insisted on providing assistance to their fellow…

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…

According to the report of the international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch - "Containment Plan: Bulgaria's Pushbacks and Detention of Syrian and other Asylum Seekers and Migrants", which was released a few days ago, the Bulgarian government has launched a…

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…

SORCE : Dnevnik 14.04.2014. On April 14th, 2014 the Special Court in Belgrade has pronounced the verdict finding sentenced nine of the ten persons accused of smuggling the illegal immigrants, Albanians, from Kosovo and Metohija, over the Tisa River to…

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,…

SOURCE: The Gardian 01. April  2014. Migrants and asylum-seekers detained in Greece are being forced to endure deplorable conditions, often with devastating effects on their health, according to a report from aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Doctors who have…

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…

Mirjana Bobic In recent years there has been a permanent increase in immigration flows to Serbia (without Kosovo and Metohija) from various sources. One part stems from massive returns of Serbian citizens from EU in line with the Readmission Agreement.…

SOURCE: Tanjug  19.03.2014. Since the beginning of the year two Ukrainian citizens have sought asylum in Serbia, while ten of them inquired about asylum conditions, says Rados Djurovic executive director of Asylum Protection Center. Among them, he declares, there are…

Source :Deutsche Welle 20.03.2014. German Ministry of Foreign Affairs started an initiative for Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania to be listed as "safe countries of origin". Asylum requests from this kind of countries are being processed in…

Source: Blic  19.03.2014. Over the last 48 hours, Italian naval and coast guard vessels rescued more than 2000 migrants traveling in boats from North Africa. The migrants have been provided accommodation in a refugee camp in the island of Lampedusa.…

A new report by the EU border agency Frontex shows that most persons detected crossing irregularly into the EU between July and September 2013 were Syrians. Syrians also submitted more applications for asylum than any other nationality. According to the…

Source : Euroactiv  10.03.2014. The Swedish minister for migration, Tobias Billström, has urged the European Commission to act against countries that do not follow EU rules when it comes to shared responsibility for accepting refugees. He said that 90% of…

The European Council of Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) together with 100 partners in 34 countries has launched Europe Act Now (www.helpsyriasrefugees.eu) calling on European leaders to protect refugees fleeing the Syrian war.To date, just 81,000 Syrians have sought protection in…

Source : Večernje novosti 06.02. 2014. In hotel "Berlin" in Sjenica and the former administration building of complex "Jelak" in Tutin, specially adapted for the accommodation of asylum seekers, currently reside about 70 migrants from all over the world. All…

Source: Vreme  26.02.2014.     AUTHOR: Mirko Rudić "Not everyone are racists in Serbia. Believe me: I was in Greece", says Marc from Congo on a fluent French. While standing in front of the hotel "Obrenovac", he recalls his trip…

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,…

SOURCE : Danas 13. 02.2014. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann demanded from the federal government in Berlin to take measures to limit the number of asylum seekers from former Yugoslav countries and Albania. Herrmann said that there is a "mass…

On territory of municipalities of Presevo and Bujanovac in the border area with Macedonia, 6000 illegal migrants were prevented from entering Serbia in 2013, and more 749 were caught in transit, said the Head of the Border Police for Foreigners…

Source : B 92  11. 02. 2014. Police Department in Kragujevac announced that A.M. (28) from Vrnjacka Banja was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime of human trafficking in Arandjelovac on February 11, 2014.As stated in the announcement,…

Ministry of Internal Affairs of Germany announced that, according to data released by the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees on February 7th, 2014, Serbia again was the first in the total number of asylum applications in January 2014.From…