The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights legal officers actively participated in the regional meeting of civil society organizations on asylum, migration and statelessness, held in Skopje from September 27 to 29, 2017.

Through the existing Zagreb Protocol and the Skopje Declaration, civil society organizations from across the region meet annually to identify the challenges they face in their work, to exchange experiences, but also consider and consolidate joint activities in the future.

This year, at the regional meeting, the focus was on the challenges that all countries in the region are facing in terms of advocacy for asylum seekers, as well as activities related to advocating the improvement of the asylum system and monitoring the work of the authorities in this field.

The meeting was organized by the Association of Young Lawyers of Macedonia (MYLA) with the support of the UNHCR office in Skopje. In addition to the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, the organizations that participated in this year’s conference were the Humanitarian Centre for Integration and Tolerance (HCIT) from Serbia, Vaša prava from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian Law Centre (HPC), Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), Legal-Informational Centre for NGOs (PIC) from Slovenia, Civil Rights Program in Kosovo (CRP / K), UNHCR PLUS, UNHCR Skopje, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), as well as members of the Western Balkans Legal Aid Network (WeBLAN) and lawyers of the Strategic Litigation Asylum Group (SLAG).