In the January-March 2017 period, the Republic of Serbia continued extending humanitarian assistance to a large number of migrants, without ascertaining in each individual case whether they were in need of international protection or issuing individual decisions determining their status. (more…)
The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights is extremely concerned by the pressures and infringement on the independence of the institution of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection and the public prosecution service’s increasingly frequent refusal to comply with the Commissioner’s rulings. (more…)
The Belgrade Center for Human Rights presented its annual report “Right to Asylum in the Republic of Serbia 2016” at the press conference held on 20 March 2017. (more…)
In its decision Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary from 14 March 2017, the European Court of Human Rights found that Hungary violated several provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights by returning two asylum seekers from Bangladesh (after carrying out the accelerated asylum procedure in Röszke detention unit) back to Serbia in 2015. (more…)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, on 24 February 2017, published statement regards the Duties of States Towards Refugees and Migrants under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Statement is available here.
Belgrade Centre for Human Rights provides free legal assistance and monitors the situation in the field of refugee law in the Republic of Serbia within the project Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Serbia. The Belgrade Centre puts effort in raising awareness of citizens and institutions on the position of asylum seekers and refugees, and promotes solutions to problems observed in practice. (more…)
