As a partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights has, since 2012, provided asylum-seekers in Serbia with free legal aid: they are explained their rights and obligations and represented before the proper authorities in Serbia and the European Court of Human Rights.

We continuously monitor the state of affairs both in the countries where the asylum-seekers come from and in Serbia. All of our findings and reports are available at the Centre’s webpage at www.azil.rs

Refugees Helping Refugees

12.11.2021. Refugees for Refugees (R4R) is a pilot project activity the BCHR has been implementing since April 2021 within the Support to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Serbia project, in executive partnership with the UNHCR Office in Serbia. R4R was designed to provide vulnerable categories, such as refugees and asylum seekers, with additional assistance and […]


Right to Asylum in the Republic of Serbia – Periodic Report for January–June 2021

Periodic Report has been prepared by the legal and integration team of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights’s Asylum and Migration programme. The Report analyses the treatment of the asylum seekers and refugees in Serbia in the first six months of 2021, based on information the BCHR team obtained during their legal representation in the […]


Evaluating Data Protection and Privacy for Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Glennie Webster 16.08.2021. Personal data is becoming an increasingly global and important issue as more companies, organizations, and individuals subscribe to new technologies to meet their needs. This has been especially true during this recent pandemic which made many turn to virtual mechanisms to protect public health. Currently, an unprecedented amount of personal data is […]


Notice on the results of the Call for project proposals for national grants for addressing migrant smuggling prevention and/or the protection of smuggled migrants

13.07.2021. The eight-member Selection Committee has decided to support 4 projects in the Republic of Serbia within the project Security for People and Borders – Combating Smuggling of Migrants in the Western Balkans. The project is implemented with the European Union funds. In accordance with the terms of the Call, after the further evaluation the […]


#MiLjudiZajednoMožemoViše – let’s mark together World Refugee Day!

14.06.2021.We have a pleasure of inviting you to join us at Belgrade club Polet, Cetinjska 15, and honor the World Refugee Day and final event of our integration campaign #MiLjudiZajednoMožemoViše. The event is our initiative to bring closer the process of integration of the refugees in the Republic of Serbia through successful personal stories of […]


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New Reports

Right to Asylum in the Republic of Serbia Periodic Report for January–June 2023

The Belgrade Center for Human Rights team has compiled a report on the right to asylum in the Republic of Serbia, covering the period from January to end June 2023 which analyses the treatment of the asylum seekers and refugees, based on information the BCHR team obtained during their legal representation in the asylum procedure […]

Presentation of BCHR’s 2022 Annual Report on the Right to Asylum in the Republic of Serbia

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights has the pleasure to present its annual report Right to Asylum in the Republic of Serbia 2022. UNHCR data show that the number of people who had to flee armed conflict, persecution or natural disasters caused by climate change has reached 103 million for the first time on record. […]

Right to Asylum in the Republic of Serbia Periodic Report for January–June 2022

16.08.2022. This Report analyses the treatment of the asylum seekers and refugees in Serbia in the first six months of 2022, based on information the BCHR team obtained during their legal representation in the asylum procedure and provision of support in their integration, and during its field work. The Report also comprises data the BCHR […]

BCHR PRESENTS ITS ANNUAL REPORT ON THE RIGHT TO ASYLUM IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights presented its annual report Right to Asylum in the Republic of Serbia in the Belgrade Media Center on Wednesday, 23 February 2022. The Report editor Ana Trifunović said that the data of the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration showed that over 60,000 people resided in Serbian asylum and […]

Recommended reports

Goran Sandić, Complementary Forms of International Protection in the Republic of Serbia, 2019

The document „Complementary Forms of International Protection in the Republic of Serbia“ aims to promote the alternative legal and administrative regulation of statuses in the field of migration and humanitarian protection. The document offers recommendations for changes to relevant laws in this area. Regarding complementary forms of protection, positive laws of the Republic of Serbia […]

Common Western Balkan Migration Policy: Borders and Returns

This is the first BRMC Regional Policy Paper. Its main purpose is to present to the general and professional public, as well as to stakeholders, the migration situation in the Western Balkans region, particularly through the overview of the relevant regulations mainly focused on the various modalities for the return of migrants. Unlike most regional […]

Access to Asylum and Reception Conditions in the Republic of Serbia

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and the International Rescue Commitee published a report on the access to asylum procedure in Serbia which also includes the analysis of the reception conditions. The report outlines the situation following the adoption of new legislation on asylum and foreigners and gives a set of recommendations to the Government on […]

Closed Borders

This Programme Report on the impact of the borders closures on people on the move, with a focus on Women and Children in Serbia and Macedonia, provides an analysis of the protection concerns that people on the move, especially women and children, face in Macedonia and Serbia following the closure of the Balkan route and […]

As a partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights has, since 2012, provided asylum-seekers in Serbia with free legal aid: they are explained their rights and obligations and represented before the proper authorities in Serbia and the European Court of Human Rights.

We continuously monitor the state of affairs both in the countries where the asylum-seekers come from and in Serbia. All of our findings and reports are available at the Centre’s webpage at www.azil.rs