The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights in cooperation with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, with the support of the International Rescue Committee, organized an interactive lecture “Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures – Improving Objectivity in Multidisciplinary Framework” on Thursday, 7 September 2017 at Human Rights House in Belgrade. The lecture was attended by 33 representatives of institutions of Republic of Serbia, international and national non-governmental organizations, who are engaged in providing assistance to persons likely in need of international protection.
Lecture was held by trainer Gábor Gyulai, the refugee program director of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and an internationally recognized lecturer who trained over 3,500 lawyers, civil servants in the authorities responsible for decision-making on asylum applications, judges, social workers and others from over 80 countries of the world, including Serbia, on issues related to asylum, migration, citizenship and statelessness.
Lecture was organized on the occasion of the forthcoming adoption of the new Law on Asylum and Temporary Protection, whereas the participants were introduced to the concept of assessing the credibility of asylum applications in accordance with the methodological approach CREDO developed by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, in cooperation with UNHCR and international experts and financed by the EU. CREDO-based science and evidence-based approach contributes to making well-founded decisions on international protection applications and helps in the efficient operation of the competent national body that decides in the asylum procedures. CREDO principles are described in publication Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures – A Multidisciplinary Training Manual prepared by Hungarian Helsinki Committee in 2013, whose Serbian version was prepared by the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and will be published soon.