According to the UNHCR estimates, the number of refugees and migrants in Serbia decreased slightly during November and amounted to about 4,300 persons of concern, of which about 3,950 were located in state asylum centers and reception centers. Most of the refugees and migrants were accommodated in reception centers in Obrenovac (871), Adasevci (357) and […]

The Committee for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted two joint general comments in order to protect the rights of child migrants. Joint general comment No. 3 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of […]

Following the closure of the Western Balkan route, the European Union focused on new refugee flows that mostly went through the Mediterranean. At the European Union leaders’ summit in Malta in early February 2017, it was agreed to provide Libya with assistance in the amount of 200 million euros in order to combat the smuggling […]

According to the UNHCR estimates, the number of refugees and migrants in Serbia increased during October and amounted to about 4,600 persons of concern in the first week of November, of which about 4,100 were located in state asylum centers and reception centers. Most of the refugees and migrants were accommodated in reception centers in […]

Council of Europe has published a report of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on Migration and Refugees, Ambassador Tomáš Boček, on October 13, 2017, following his visit to Serbia and Hungary. The Special Representative visited the asylum centers in Krnjača and Bogovađa, and the reception centers in Adaševci, […]

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 […]

The State Council of Greece, the highest administrative court in Greece, rendered a judgment on 22 September 2017 on the case of two Syrian nationals whose applications for asylum were previously rejected. The court accepted the position of the lower authorities that Turkey was a safe third country and confirmed the accelerated procedure as a […]

The number of refugees and migrants in Serbia was the lowest in the previous year, however the decrease that lasted since March has ended. The UNHCR estimates that there were 4,146 of them at the end of the month with some 350 staying outside government accommodation centers. Those who were accommodated in government accommodation centers […]