Source: Blic TV Photo: Blic TV Video: Blic TV 7 July 2024 - With the adoption of the bylaw regulating refugees passports design and content, conditions were met for issuing these travel IDs for refugees. Aforementioned bylaw was adopted by…
Read moreOn the World Refugee Day, APC Interviewed by the Serbia Radio Television Daily
Source: RTS Photo: RTS Video: RTS Belgrade, June 20, 2024 - Radoš Đurović from the Asylum Protection Center (APC) says for the Serbia Radio Television Daily News (RTS Dnevnik), that in the last 10 years, number of internally displaced people…
Read moreEurope must end repression of human rights defenders assisting refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
Source: Council of Europe Photo: IMAGO/photothek Strasbourg, February 22, 2024- “Across Europe, individuals and organisations are facing growing harassment, intimidation, violence and criminalisation simply for contributing to the protection of the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.…
Read moreSmuggling as the result of fences and refugees’ despair
Source: RTS Photo: RTS Video: RTS Belgrade, December 5, 2023- The President of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Đurović, told RTS that at least 50 people come to Serbia every day from the direction of Bulgaria and North Macedonia, and there…
Read moreAPC’s guest appearance on the Day live show on N1
Source: N1 Video: N1 Belgrade, November 9, 2023- Radoš Đurović from the Asylum Protection Center was a guest on the show Day live, where he talked about the current situation with migrants in Serbia. He states that after the operation…
Read moreĐurović: The Hungarian fence on the border with Serbia only strengthened the gangs that smuggle migrants
Source: RTS Video: RTS Belgrade, November 7, 2023- Radoš Đurović from Asylum Protection Center tells RTS that the problem of smuggling gangs and their mutual conflicts in Serbia has been going on for years, and that Serbian citizens are also…
Read more“The conflict in the Middle East serves for the needs of the fight against migration going to Europe”: Radoš Đurović on the situation of refugees for Danas
Source: Danas Belgrade, October 24, 2023- The Hamas attack on Israel that took place on October 7 raised the question and fear of possible terrorist attacks, which, according to Danas' interlocutors, are closely related to the issue of migration from…
Read moreRed line: On the attitude of the EU and the countries of the region towards migrants
Source: N1 BIH, Red line show Photo: N1 BIH, Red line show Video: N1 BIH Date: October 6, 2023 In the Red Line show, the guests Karlo Ressler, HDZ representative in the European Parliament, Radoš Đurović from Asylum Protection Center…
Read moreAPC claims that the policy of fences and pushback creates and strengthens smuggling
Source: APC, RTS, BBC FOTO: Armend Nimani/AFP Belgrade, September 29- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently stated that migrants attacked the joint border patrol of Serbia and Hungary using automatic weapons. He also stated that migrants have crossed the Rubicon…
Read moreKako rešiti probleme azilanata pojašnjava Radoš Đurović za RTS Radio Beograd 1
Source: RTS Audio: RTS Photo: Getty Images Belgrade, September 18, 2023- In the RTS show called Uhvati dan, the guest was Radoš Đurović from Asylum Protection Center. Đurović explains that due to pushbacks from the Hungarian side, enormous smuggling…
Read moreAll routes of migrants – high smuggling tariff for leaving Serbia
Source: RTS Video: RTS Belgrade, August 15, 2023- Radoš Đurović, executive director of Asylum Protection Center, points out for RTS that there are around 5,000 migrants in Serbia at any given time, most of them from Syria. Sooner or…
Read moreAre the migrants in Serbia conflicted (and why)?
Source: Nova S, APC Video: Nova S Belgrade, June 26, 2023- In the last week, there have been several incidents involving migrants. Asylum Protection Center especially emphasizes the vulnerability of the refugee population, which, in this situation is actually…
Read moreWorld Refugee Day – only 6 granted protections by June in Serbia
Serbia celebrates World Refugee Day with many challenges regarding the protection of refugees who come from different hotspots and are subject to different protection regimes, but also with the opportunity to arrange their reception and protection while they are in…
Read moreRadoš Đurović: The agreement of EU members to pay for not accepting migrants also affects Serbia
Source: Tanjug, Politika Belgrade, June 11, 2023- Every decision related to asylum and migration in Europe directly affects Serbia, since we are the last country on the border of the Schengen area, as Radoš Đurović, executive director of Asylum…
Read moreAPC explains the new migration trends as well as the conflicts near the borders
Video: K1 Belgrade, March 15, 2023- As a guest on the Uranak show on K1 television, the director of APC/CZA, Radoš Đurović, explained the new trends concerning the migration routes through Serbia, which are connected with the entry of Croatia…
Read moreSmuggling – a consequence of the wall policy and defining Europe
Source: N1 Video: N1 Belgrade, March 6, 2023- In the show Global Focus on N1 television, the guests were Radoš Đurović in front of Asylum Protection Center, Ivana Dragičević, research journalist from Zagreb and Matthew Saltmarsh from UNHCR. They discussed…
Read moreMigrant crisis – who comes, who passes, and who stays in Serbia?
Source: RTS Video: RTS- Thursday at 9 Belgrade, 12/22/2022- Asylum Protection Center was a guest on the RTS show "Thursday at 9" together with representatives of the police and the academy, in an attempt to shed light on the…
Read moreAPC about the incident in Horgoš, refugee smuggling and the necessary solutions
Belgrade, 11/30/2022 - The migrant or refugee population in Serbia is again "in the spotlight" of the public at this moment. Unfortunately, not on a good occasion. It all started with a new armed conflict that took place in Horgoš,…
Read moreĐurović on the increased number of migrants in Serbia, reception centers and the abuse of visa-free regime
Source: TV K1 Video: TV K1 Belgrade, October 21, 2022 - The number of registered migrants in Serbia has doubled compared to last year. In 2022, more than 86,000 of them were recorded and those are people from Afghanistan, Syria,…
Read moreCamps for refugees insufficient, serious humanitarian situation
Source: RTS Belgrade, October 17, 2022- After two years of a lull due to the pandemic, the number of migrants in our country has increased in recent months. More than 86,000 of them have been officially registered since the beginning…
Read moreIncreased number of refugees entering Serbia
Source: RTS Belgrade, October 4, 2022 - The war in Ukraine, inflation, sanctions and the rising energy prices pushed the issue of migration and migrants to the background, but the migrant crisis has not ceased since 2015. This year, the…
Read moreAccess to asylum has not been announced to be restricted
Source: Tanjug Photo: Tanjug Belgrade, September 25- Radoš Đurović, the executive director of Asylum Protection Center, explains that the public's eyes are currently focused on the treatment of people fleeing Russia, after the announced mobilization. Nevertheless, he continues, the asylum…
Read moreOver 17,000 people from Ukraine have registered their staying in Serbia
Source: Tanjug Photo: Politika Belgrade, September 25, 2022- Over 17,900 people from Ukraine are staying in our country, according to the executive director of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Đurović. He states that over 92,000 Ukrainians have entered the country since…
Read moreAbout 10,000 migrants in Serbia- insufficient accommodation facilities, criminals getting involved
Source: Beta Photo:(BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/DS) Belgrade, 09/07/2022- The executive director of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Djurović, said today that according to the center's data, more than 70,000 migrants have entered Serbia since the beginning of the year, and that there…
Read moreGrowing number of refugees in Serbia; lack of accommodation
Source: Euronews Belgrade, August 23, 2022- More than 10,000 refugees reside in our country at any given moment, mostly from Asia and North Africa, and since the beginning of the year, in seven months, more than 65,000 people have passed…
Read moreAPC contributes EUAA’S Annual 2023 Report
European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has published its annual report on the state of affairs in asylum and the reception of refugees in the countries of the European Union. Our Asylum Protection Center contributed to the process of writing…
Read moreGrowing tensions towards migrants/refugees in the northern Serbia
Source: Nova S The events in Subotica and the conflict between smuggling groups from 07/02/2022, which are disturbing the public, served many people to raise prejudices against refugees in Serbia. The real causes, pushbacks from Hungary, smuggling and the…
Read moreIt is World Refugee Day. What kind of host is Serbia?
Source: K1 Televizija Belgrade, June 20, 2022 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlQtWtSKmvY
Read moreĐurović: Less and less understanding for refugees in the developed world countries
Source: Beta, N1 Belgrade, 06/20/2022- The executive director of Asylum Protection Center, Radoš Đurović, assessed there is less and less understanding for refugees and for solidarity in sharing the burden of refugees among the developed world countries, while the movements…
Read moreUnequal rights of refugees and migrants in Europe.
Source: Al Jazeera Balkans Belgrade 25.05.2022 - Rekordni broj izbjeglih i raseljenih ljudi u 21. stoljeću, najmanje 100 miliona ili više od 1 posto svjetske populacije: kako spriječiti uzroke, zaustaviti ratove i nasilje nad civilima? Kakav je status izbjeglih i…
Read moreAPC: The granting of temporary protected status for Ukrainian refugees to be accelerated
Source: Beta Belgrade, April 27, 2022. - The Asylum Protection Center (APC) summed up today that it is necessary to speed up the issuance of decision on granting temporary protected status to the Ukrainian refugees who have residence registration in…
Read moreDuring the 50 days of war in Ukraine, more than 4.7 million people left the country.
Izvor: K1 Televizija. Belgrade, 15.04.2022.
Read moreCMS demand an urgent dismissal of the top of the Croatian Ministry of the Interior!
Source: CMS 05.04.2022 - Asylum and integration policies The Grand Chamber Panel of the European Court of Human Rights rejected the referral request of the Republic of Croatia in the case of little Madina’s family. Thus, the judgement that the Republic of Croatia violated…
Read moreĐurović: Sistem informacija mora da se razrađuje.
Autor: Euronews Srbija Beograd, 30.03.2022. Radoš Đurović iz Centra za pomoć i zaštitu tražiocima azila rekao je za Euronews Srbija da sistem informisanja za ljude koji dolaze iz Ukrajine mora da se dodatno razradi, kao i da se većina onih koji…
Read moreThe Government urgently to raise Temporary Protection mechanism
Source: Tanjug Belgrade, 12.03.2022. BELGRADE: The Asylum Protection Center appealed to the Government of Serbia to adopt Temporary Protection decision for refugees from Ukraine, which would regulate their rights and their position while they are in our country. Thus, currently…
Read moreThe government to urgently make a decision on the temporary protection of the refugees from Ukraine
Source: Tanjug Belgrade, 03/12/2022 Asylum Protection Center appealed today to the Government of Serbia to pass an act on the temporary protection of refugees from Ukraine, which would regulate the rights and position of these persons while they are in…
Read moreTo legally protect everyone who is coming from Ukraine to Serbia
Source: RTS Beograde, 08.03.2022. According to UN data, 1,700,000 people left Ukraine in 10 days. By mid-March, that number could reach four million. Warnings are coming of the possibility of severe humanitarian consequences. The path of refugees from Ukraine leads…
Read moreĐurović: One million refugees from Ukraine is just the first wave in Europe, we appealed to the Government of Serbia to prepare
Source: Euronews Belgrade, 03/03/2022 - In just eight days since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, more than a million refugees left the country and went to the neighboring countries - Hungary, Slovakia, Poland or Romania. Radoš Đurović from…
Read moreSeveral hundred refugees from Ukraine arrived in Serbia
Source: RTS Belgrade 03/02/2022 -The largest number of people escaped from Ukraine to Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary. Several hundred refugees have also arrived in Serbia and for now are mostly staying at relatives and friends. Director of Asylum Protection…
Read moreHalf a million people have fled Ukraine since the intervention began.
Source: K1 Televizija Beograd 01.03.2022.
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