In cooperation with the Judicial Academy, the Ministry of Justice and the UN Human Rights Team in Serbia, the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights hosted a round table on the execution of UN Committee against Torture decisions. The event was organised with a view to finding a joint response of the state and civil society to the following question: how to conduct extradition proceedings in accordance with legally binding international standards on the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and in compliance with the non-refoulement principle. The round table focused in particular on the case of Turkish Kurd Cevdet Ayaz, whom Serbia had extradited to Turkey despite the interim measure indicated by the UN Committee against Torture.

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights participated in the conference “Regulations in the Field of Asylum and Migration: One Year of Implementation” on 26 November 2019.

The event was organised by Group 484, with the support of the Balkan Trust for Democracy and the Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade. Belgrade Law School Professors Dr Ivana Krstić and Dr Marko Davinić presented the “Guide on Regulations in the Field of Asylum and Migration” at the conference. Furthermore, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Border Police Directorate, Service for Aliens, the Asylum Office, as well as judges of the Administrative and Misdemeanour Appellate Courts, and representatives of civil society organisations, including the BCHR, discussed the implementation of the relevant asylum and migration regulations one year since they entered into force.

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights participated in the Council of Europe Conference in Sarajevo, 14.11.2019 on regional cooperation in the field of migration and asylum. A representative of the Centre participated in a panel on the role of international organisations and civil society organisations sharing the experience of the Centre, which as a partner of UNHCR has been involved in the field of asylum since 2012, regarding the current situation in Serbia and the region, the link between human rights and migration,  and the application of international standards in the field of asylum. (more…)

The BCHR team has participated at the Annual General Conference of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) organised together with the UNHCR-NGO Europe. Consultations were held on 23-24 October 2019 in Brussels. (more…)

Belgrade Centre for Human Rights has compiled a periodic report covering the first half of 2019, analyzing the right of access to the asylum procedure with special focus to access to the Belgrade airport procedure, as well as the practice of decision-making bodies in the asylum procedure through the analysis of individual decisions. (more…)