Donor: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade
Duration: December 2015 – December 2016
The ultimate goal of the project was to improve the status of refugees in Serbia by providing them with legal assistance and by monitoring whether Serbian asylum policy is meeting international human rights standards.
The project enabled the BCHR to engage more lawyers and enhance their capacities for providing free legal assistance and adequate legal aid in judicial and administrative proceedings. Project team undergo eight trainings on administrative procedure, protection of unaccompanied children, the ECtHR practice, strategic litigation, credibility assessment in the asylum procedure, representing asylum seekers before the Constitutional Court of Serbia, integration of refugees and the examples of good practice in this field, and protection of human rights of refugees. Trainings were conducted by eminent professionals in these fields.
