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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…

Text: APC  Photo: APC Šid, October 4 - According to the information collected by legal and psychosocial officers of APC/CZA during a visit to camps and open locations in the north of Serbia, dozens of migrants from Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq…

Text: APC Photo: APC Sid, August 30, 2019 - According to information gathered by the APC / CZA mobile team during regular visits to open locations near the border with Croatia, the Croatian police, in addition to the brutality with…

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…

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…

In 2012 Asylum Protection Center realizes interactive workshops with women and children in both asylum centers in Serbia – Banja Koviljaca and Bogovadja. After identifying the problems in the local community in Banja Koviljaca during 2011, strengthening on the one…

As the majority of asylum seekers are coming from the patriarchal societies in which men are always the ones who represent the family and make important decisions so women are always in the shadow, we believe that women and children…

One workshop from one of three program units (psychological empowerment, creative, health and workshops based on cultural differences) is once a week realized with women from different countries in the Asylum Centers, Banja Koviljaca and Bogovadja. Through psychological empowerment workshops…