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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…