Donor: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade and Dutch Refugee Council Netherlands

Duration: From November 2014 – April 2016

This project sought to improve the asylum system in Serbia by raising awareness about the importance of asylum and migration issues and to set these topics in the context of European integration and regional cooperation – one of Serbia’s political priorities. To further the project’s aims, a study visit of BCHR’s lawyers to the Netherlands was organised by the Dutch Council for Refugees (DCR), two trainings for Serbian, Macedonian and Croatian CSOs were conducted by DCR experts, and a Regional Expert Conference was organised. (more…)

Donor: Regional Research Promotion Programme in the Western Balkans (RRPP)

Project: August 2014 – October 2015

This research project investigated the contribution of constitutional courts to democratic transition and consolidation in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, and focused on examining the capacity, positioning, legitimacy and overall performance of constitutional courts in resolving important political and social issues in four transitional countries of the Western Balkans. The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights implemented this project with Center for Social Research Analitika from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Group for Legal and Political Studies in Kosovo and the CRPM – Center for Research and Policy Making in Macedonia. (more…)

Donor: Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade

Duration: December 2014 – December 2015

This was the third year of the implementation of this project by the partnership between Group 484 (the lead organisation), the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, and the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. This project continued to work to provide hands-on policy outputs for the most pressing issues in the areas of asylum and migration. The project specifically aimed to reach consensus on necessary legislative changes based on the Draft Law on Asylum proposed by CSOs in 2014. (more…)