Legal aid

Asylum Protection Center provides free legal aid and assistance to Ukrainian refugees in obtaining temporary protection or in seeking asylum in Serbia. All in the context of raising influx of Ukrainian refugees (entering and/or temporarily staying in Serbia), inquiring how…

In Serbia, Asylum Protection Center launched a national campaign in 2021 to ensure refugees and asylum seekers could get COVID-19 vaccines. The organization is also working to protect migrant children and help them enroll in schools.     When COVID-19 vaccines…

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,…

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,…

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,…

Upravni sud je presudom 16 U 9284/2020 usvojio tužbu Centra za zaštitu i pomoć tražiocima azila i ponovio da je došlo do povrede prava na upotrebu i vođenje upravnog postupka na jeziku koji stranka, u ovom slučaju azilant  S.A. iz Avganistana,…

10.02.2021. Beograd, Još od stupanja na snagu Zakona o azilu i privremenoj zaštiti i donošenja Pravilnika o sadržini i izgledu obrasca zahteva za azil i sadržini i izgledu obrazaca isprava koje se izdaju tražiocu azila i licu kojem je odobren…

Maloletnik bez pratnje roditelja M. A. (16) poreklom iz Sirije, pronadjen je u šumi u okolini Subotice, i hitno dana 17.11.2020. godine primljen u bolnicu u besvesnom stanju. Dijagnostifikovana mu je hipotermija, sepsa, meningitis, delimicna oduzetost tela i upala pluća,…

23.10.2020. Presevo, APC/CZA combined team of legal and psychosocial officers working in local office in the south of Serbia and visiting different cities (Vranje, Bujanovac, Presevo, Nis etc.) and monitoring Serbian-Macedonian and Serbian-Albanian borders to follow the number of refugee’s…

06.09.2020. Belgrade, Many of refugee are arriving to Belgrade with serious injuries from the violence and illegal push back from the border with Hungary or Croatia, they are staying in the parks around the main bus station in center Belgrade.…

03.09.2020. Sid, While visiting an open location in Sid, the mobile APC/CZA team of lawyer and psychologist providing legal and psychosocial support/counseling for refugees to understand their legal position, their rights, obligations and possibilities to protect themselves. APC/CZA mobile team…

17.08.2020. Belgrade, APC/CZA team of lawyer and cultural mediator visiting asylum center Krnjaca in Belgrade and working with refugees accordingly to the guidelines against the spreading of COVID-19 (wearing mask, keeping distance and using hand sanitizer). Our team met father…

20.07.2020. Beograd, Centar za zaštitu i pomoć tražiocima azila sa izrazitim zadovoljstvom izdaje saopštenje da su odobrene vize za prvo spajanje porodice izbeglice u Republici Srbiji od nastanka azilnog sistema 2007 godine. Naime, radi se o porodici izbeglice iz Avganistana…

Beograd, APC/CZA volonteri, studenti i kulturni medijatori uz superviziju stručnih radnika naše organizacije u Beogradu pomažu tražiocima azila i izbeglicama prilikom kupovine personalizovanih Busplus kartica za prevoz. Kao i domaći građani – ako su nezaposleni, tražioci azila i izbeglice mogu…

02.07.2020. Vranje, APC/CZA team of psychosocial and cultural mediator visiting reception center Vranje in south of Serbia, providing psychosocial support/counseling for the refugees and especially for women and family with children. Being a refugee and living in the camp will…

Pružanje informacija je i dalje najbitniji segment u zaštiti novopridošlih migranata i izbeglica u Srbiju. Naši timovi  obilaze prihvatne centre i mesta gde se izbegli nalaze na jugu Srbije, u centralnoj Srbiji i na severu zemlje. U okviru projekta “Hitna…

28.05.2020. Belgrade, APC/CZA team of pedagogue, social worker and cultural mediator working in asylum center in Krnjaca in Belgrade, providing necessary counseling/support and help for the refugees family in resolving problems they may face living in the camp with other…

15.04.2020. Belgrade, You can find out new and verified information regarding the validity of work permits, IDs, freedom of movement, camp rules and regulations, social assistance during the satate of emergency because of CORONA19 virus through our APC smartphone app…

During 2019, Asylum Protection Centar continued to help asylum seekers and refugees obtain personal work permits in order to join the labor market without hindrance. According to the Center's statistics, more than 100 personal work permits have been issued for…

Prepared by: APC Photo: APC Bujanovac, August 27, 2019 - Southern team of the Asylum Protection Centre, consisting of lawyers, psychologists, and cultural mediators visited a camp in Bujanovac and spoke with eight unaccompanied minors who are there between two…

Text: APC  Photo: APC Obrenovac, June 07, 2019 - Many of the refugees we encountered, taken in the photo, are sleeping in the open around the transit center Obrenovac, being denied shelter, food and health service. They are suffering from…

APC/CZA lawyer providing legal information and free legal counseling to asylum seekers/ refugees in Sjenica Asylum centre, with the aim to raise their awareness about asylum procedure, rights, obligations and how to access asylum system in Serbia. With the support…

BELGRADE, May 29, 2019 – A citizen of Pakistan who was legally represented by APC has been granted asylum in Serbia. During the year-long asylum procedure, it was established that his request for asylum was well-founded, as it was established that…

Visit us today and tomorrow in the “Legal Days of South East Europe” fair, Metropol, Belgrade. APC is the oldest organization providing professional legal aid to asylum seekers/refugees since the start of Serbian asylum system 11 years ago. APC has…

BELGRADE, May 9, 2019 – APC/CZA successfully secured asylum in the Republic of Serbia for a member of the LGBT community for the second time, this time fleeing persecution in Iran. During the asylum procedure that lasted for more than…

Text: APC  Photo: APC Bujanovac, Presevo, Vranje, Pirot, 30 April 2019 - Employees of the Asylum Protection Center (APC/CZA) make regular visits to the camps in Vranje, Bujanovac, Pirot and open locations in Presevo. Here, APC conducted informal interviews with…

April 11th, 2019 Sid – APC/CZA team informing refugees/migrants and monitoring illegal pushbacks and violence in Sid and the surrounding area. APC/CZA team regularly provides information and psychosocial assistance/support to endangered migrants living in the open areas along the border…

prepared by: APC          photo: APC BELGRADE, February 10 - A 46 year old man from Afghanistan is the first entrepreneurial refugee in Serbia. Two months ago, he received the right to establish an entrepreneurial service for the provision…

author:APC/BETA      photo:Reuters Belgrade, January 28 - At the end of 2018, an unaccompanied minor girl from an African country received asylum in Serbia - this was the first instance of asylum being granted to an unaccompanied minor in our…

Edited:apc  Photo:apc BELGRADE,December 10- Asylum Protection Center organized an international conference on the challenges surrounding the integration of refugees in the Balkans and the EU from December 5-8 2018, in Belgrade. The conference brought together experts and representatives of organizations…

Author: APC/CZA                         Photo: APC/CZA Belgrade. November 21st - Asylum Protection Center alongside the Center for Public Policy through joint efforts during the past year, have prepared research and a policy…

SOMBOR, October 5th - On the border of Croatia and Hungary, there are currently between 800 and 1000 persons attempting to cross the border or currently residing in its vicinity; with these attempts becoming more frequent as winter approaches. Intimidation, threats…

Sid / Sombor, September 21 - An increasing number of migrants from Serbia are trying to enter Europe across the Croatian border, among them a large number of minors aged 12 to 17, and are often subjected to physical violence…

Author: APC   photo: APC New York, May 20 - The fourth round of negotiations between the UN member states on the draft Global Compact on Safe, Convenient and Regular Migration was followed by other panels focusing on all the major issues raised…

Zagreb, April 20 - Zagreb, april 20th – Family of 6 years old Medina Hosseini from Afghanistan who died at the Serbian-Croatian border when Croatian police returned them to railroad and sent them to walk back to Serbia, when the sleepy…

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.…

author: APC | photo: APC   Belgrade, 16. january  – At the Institute for Mother and Child in New Belgrade lies little Ferhad. He's an Afghan. He was born as a refugee. His mother, Sabra, gave birth to him in Istanbul. He is brought…

author: APC | photo: APC   Belgrade January 14 – Little Marko Sadat was born on January 10 around 5am in a hospital in Zvezdara. His parents, 21 year old Afghans, Atefu and Erfan, were very happy. He's their first baby. But it would not be…