The number of underage asylum seekers in Europe is on a constant rise since 2013, while the number of those who travel without parents via informal refugee routs is also increasing. From a legal perspective, unaccompanied children must satisfy the same criteria as adult asylum seekers in order to receive international protection. However, special protection […]

A year has passed since the UN General Assembly adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants on 19 September 2017. Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, supported by Oxfam, took part in work of the civil society organizations and the Action Committee with the aim of providing the mechanisms of accountability and control to […]

European Court of Justice has rejected a challenge brought by Hungary and Slovakia against the European Union’s power to force member states to admit asylum seekers from Italy and Greece, in accordance with the predefined quota envisaging these two countries to admit total of 2.196 refugees. In their case before the ECJ, Hungary and Slovakia […]

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 […]

The number of refugees and migrants in Serbia continued to decrease throughout August 2017. UNHCR estimates that there were around 4,200 of them at the end of the month. 3,915 individuals, or 93% of the total number of refugees and migrants, resided in the five asylum centres (Krnjača, Banja Koviljača, Bogovađa, Sjenica, Tutin) and 13 […]

A newly compiled report by UNHCR titled “Desperate Journeys” shows a decline in the number of refugees and migrants arriving in Europe in the first half of 2017. Moreover, comparing to 2016 when most migrants came to Europe through Greece, in 2017 almost seven times more came via the Central Mediterranean route to Italy. Number […]

On August 9, 2017, the Help Refugees foundation alongside Fabrika fotografa organised an exhibition of etchings, aquarels and photographs created by Fahrad Nouri, a child from Afghanistan, who with his family resides in the Asylum Centre in Krnjača. The exhibition titled ’’We need kindness – the dream of a ten year old“ was of a […]

The inclusion of migrant children in formal school system in Serbia begun in December 2016 through a pilot project implemented by UNICEF and its partner organizations. The pilot project included only unaccompanied migrant children from asylum centres in Krnjaca and Bogovadja. However, since mid-2017, UNICEF, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development and the Commissariat […]