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Due to the expiration of the Stockholm Programme at the end of 2014, the European Council will adopt in June strategic guidelines indicating the way forward in the area of Justice and Home Affairs in the EU. In the context…

Source: ECRE 07.02.2013. The resolution calls on EU Member States to distinguish immigration policies from the healthcare, education and prosecution of crimes against undocumented women migrants. Such a distinction would enable this group to access their fundamental rights regardless of…

All capacities in the centers for asylum seekers were filled at the end of January, 2014. Because of winter, refugees from Syria decide to stay longer in Serbia, and if we do not register them, they come in danger of…

Source: Pobjeda  03.02.2014. Center for asylum seekers, as the first of its kind in Montenegro, is open in Spuz on February 3rd, 2014."Montenegro, as a country that borders with the European Union (EU), since Croatia joined the EU in mid…

In the Annual Report for 2013 of the international organization Human Rights Watch about the situation of human rights in the member states of the European Union is stated that xenophobia, racism and discrimination still represent a serious problem in…

Source : Tanjug 28. January 2014. The Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migrations and the police organized an action between the night and morning on January 27th and January 28th, 2014, in which they accommodated around 150 asylum seekers who…

Source : B 92  28. January  2014.Three asylum seekers due to tuberculosis and frostbite, after spending a night in the woods outside the Asylum Center in Bogovadja, have been admitted to the Valjevo hospital on January 28th, 2014.The Serbian Commissariat for…

The first person from Eritrea has frostbite on his hands and feet - he is feeling well, has no amputations, has received proper medication. He have a paper-confirmation of intent to seek asylum.The second person refuses to say where he…

Source: B  92 28.01.2014. New problems for asylum seekers in Serbia. Because of tuberculosis, asthma and frostbite, three asylum seekers were admitted in Valjevo hospital after they spent the night in the woods near Bogovodja. These are asylum seekers who…

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…

On January 21st, 2013, police of Nis has discovered 2 vehicles with 22 illegal migrants from Eritrea, Afghanistan and Syria, and has arrested one person on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of illegal border crossing and people smuggling,…

Source : RTS  22.01.2014. On January 22nd, 2014, residents of Banja Vrujci, revolted by the akt of asylum seekers, blocked the road Mionica - Ljig for one hour. Asylum seekers have found accomodation in one of the villas in Banja…

SOURCE: B92 27.November 2013. Residents of the village Skela blocked the road at Obrenovac on November 27th, 2013, after arrival of 2 buses with asylum seekers for which there was no room in the Center for asylum seekers in Bogovadja.The…

Source: Večernje novosti 25.November  2013. On November 25th, 2013, Serbian government designated a facility in Obrenovac in the Poljacki kraj bb – Usce street to serve for temporary accommodation and provision of basic living conditions for persons seeking asylum in…

Source: Euro Activ 20. novembra 2013. The European Commission indirectly warned Greece and Bulgaria to stop turning down Syrian refugees at their borders with Turkey, after the UN issued a similar call just a few days before. Greece and Bulgaria…

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…

Source: Deutsche Welle 16.08.2013. Only in July 2013, 9,500 people requested asylum in Germany. That's almost twice as much as in the same month last year. German authorities are concerned. Most of asylum seekers comes from Chechnya, but there are…

Source: Dan 13.avgust 2013. .On August 13th, 2013, Albanian police have arrested 43 Pakistanis and Moroccans near the town of Gjirokastra, who planned to illegally cross the border with Montenegro, in order to proceed to Western Europe. According to local…

Source: Blic, BBC The Italian Coast Guard on August 10th 2013 found six bodies of illegal immigrants at a beach in Sicily, which is believed to be citizens of Syria, while 100 people are rescued.According to Italian investigators, they probably…

Source: B92   13.August 2013. Routes for transfer of the illegal migrants to the countries of the EU are increasingly diverted to the east of Europe, indicates the report of the Austrian Interior Ministry.Researchers pay special attention to Subotica and…

Source : Al Jazeera 8.August 2013. Macedonian police claims that the number of migrants in this country is constantly growing, especially in times of economic crisis in Greece.Over Macedonia's territory every year a thousands of migrants crosses in a search…

Source : Voice of America In the end of July 2013. renowned photographer Sebastian Rich opened the exhibition of photos documenting difficult condition migrants from war countries are facing. Sebastian Rich calls himself "photoreporter at the right place at the…

Source: Politika   21.07.2013. Among those who seek asylum in Serbia and then continue their way to the EU, there are still many citizens of Syria and Somalia, but more and more of them are coming from Sudan and Mali.…

Source : Banjaluka.com   18. July  2013. Number of asylum applications from Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2013 was higher by 13 percent compared to April 2013, according to the latest data of European Agency for External Borders (Frontex) in…

Source: RTS 16. July 2013. The fugitive former associate of the Central Intelligence Agency, Edward Snowden applied for a temporary asylum in Russia on July16th2013, said the famous Russian lawyer Anatoly Kučerena.Kučerena, participated in the last week held meeting of…

Source: B92   12. July  2013 Moscow - Edward Snowden has held a meeting with human rights representatives at the Moscow airport today and the WikiLeaks has released what is actually said. We carry out a statement of Snowden, that…

Source : Večernje novosti   9. July 2013. Temporary reception center for asylum seekers who come mainly from African and Asian countries, in the village of Vracevic near Lajkovac, will definitely be closed in mid-July of 2013. The temporary center…

Source  : Amnesty International    9. July  2013. Refugees and migrants who come from war-torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan and trying to reach the EU via Greece are at high risk from being unlawfully and forcibly returned to…

SOURCE: Večernje novosti , Fox News   2. jul 2013. Four amateur filmmakers in Hong Kong have beaten Hollywood to the draw by producing the first film on the escaped American intelligence agent Edward Snowden, a five-minute thriller depicting the…

Source: Večernje novosti   7. July 2013. People smuggling across the border is one of the most profitable types of smuggling because it can be earned at least 3 000 euros per month. This "business" often brings much more money…

SOURCE: Global post, Politika   1.07. 2013. Self-proclaimed Government of Kosovo decided to introduce a visa regime for 87 countries in May 2013. It was said that the visa regime will be based on the "threats to security of the…

SOURCE: RTS 30.06. 2013. In recent years, Serbia has become a transit route for the illegal migrants from Africa and Asia that flee to Western Europe. Illegal migrants pay to our smugglers from 3 to 10 thousand euros for transit.…

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,…

Source: Večernje novosti  25. June  2013. The former chief of the police in Loznica Slavisa Mitrovic, who is now assigning as assistant chief of police in neighboring Krupanj, was arrested on June 25th 2013 near Presevo. Mitrovic was caught while…

Source: Večernje novosti On May 30, 2013, the Department of the Criminal Police of Serbia arrested the members of the criminal group in the area of Pancevo, Subotica, Smederevska Palanka, Belgrade and Kanjiza. That group was accused for organization of…

Source: The Daily Star , Večernje novosti 16.jun 2013. On Sunday, June 16th, Macedonian police arrested 15 people, among whom was one member of the Macedonian police, suspected for smuggling and trafficking. They are suspected for smuggling the migrants, who…

Source: Novi magazin 19.06. 2013. Although it's been three years since the ministerial conference in Belgrade and the year after the donors have provided funds for the Regional Housing Program for refugees, not a single apartment still has not been…

Source: Reuters, Blic According to the international human rights organization – Human Rights Watch (HRW), during the suppression of illegal migration Greek police often arrest people based on their physical appearance, but later shows that only a small number of…