Refugees - Time

Personal attitude

17.June 2026 Sufyan Ajali

Being a refugee is not an identity - it is a circumstance

The latest data on the number and position of refugees, published on the eve of June 20, World Refugee Day, are both a reminder and a call to reflection. Every year, this day is an occasion to recognize the strength and achievements of refugees, while recognizing the hardships they have gone through and the challenges they continue to face. Now is the time to renew our commitment to solidarity. The right to seek security was created precisely for such moments

Chronicle

13.May 2026. KS

Shooting near Obrenovac: Showdown between two groups of migrants

In the conflict between two groups of migrants in Obrenovac, one person was killed, while another was seriously injured. Police activated operational plan "Whirlwind 3"

A humanitarian catastrophe

23.July 2025 NR

Gaza Strip: Dogs are fat, people are thin

More than a hundred humanitarian organizations are calling for human lives to be saved in Gaza - while there is still more to be saved. Israel, on the other hand, follows the logic of turning everything into ashes and starving those it does not kill

IT WAS A HAPPY GIRL: Madina (on the poster) and Ivan Sršen

Madina Husini

02.July 2025 Vojislava Crnjanski Spasojevic

A story about freedom, children and stars

She happily played with dolls, dressed up as a princess and regretted not being able to keep the kittens she found. She was within reach of freedom when she died because she was forbidden to reach it. Now it lives in Madina Hussiny's picture book Children from the playground

Research

20.June 2025 IN THE

Job of refugees in Serbia: Most of them are employed by IKEA, followed by the tourism and retail sectors

In Serbia, during 2023 and 2024, as many as 42 percent of refugees and asylum seekers who requested help from the UNHCR managed to get a job

SAD

20.May 2025. IN THE

Washington Post: Ukrainians each $1.000 for voluntary departure from the USA

Nearly 200.000 Ukrainian citizens currently residing in the United States could face deportation

Migrants

21.march 2025 KS

UN: Record death of migrants in 2024

Last year, in 2024, there was a record death of migrants since such data have been recorded

Sound weapon

19.march 2025 KS

BIRN: The police previously used sound weapons on migrants

Although the police deny that sound weapons have been used in Serbia before, BIRN reveals that in November 2023, Serbian police used a "sound-producing weapon-like device" on refugees

Germany

10.January 2025 Sabine Kinkarz (DW)

Research before the elections: Germans have never been more dissatisfied

Refugees, immigration, the poor state of the economy - these are the most important issues for Germans six weeks before the Bundestag elections. A new opinion poll indicates that there will be a change of government in Berlin

Culture of memory, Center in Banja Koviljača

30.October 2024 Mila Jovanovic

A stop on the way to a better life

This is a story about people fleeing from suffering, from wars and unimaginable poverty, about their stay in Serbia, about some past times when Romanians and Chileans sought salvation in Yugoslavia, about the nineties and our refugees from Croatia who had nowhere to go, and then about the years after 2008 when people from some distant world come. They all have one thing in common - they wanted peace and to settle down

Thorny road: Migrants to Italy usually arrive in small wooden boats

EU and migration

15.October 2024 TS

The "export" of migrants from Italy to Albania has begun: Is Serbia the next "host"?

The first group of migrants was transferred from Italy to Albania, in accordance with the controversial agreement between the two countries on the establishment of asylum centers outside the European Union. Other European countries are also considering this possibility, and one of the possible hosts for refugees from around the world is Serbia, which negotiated a similar agreement with Austria in 2019.

Palestinians pray near the destroyed mosque in Rafah

The World

31.May 2024. MJ/RSE

UN: Due to the wars, 114 million people have been displaced, the Gaza Strip has been devastated

The number of people worldwide who have left their homes due to war, violence and persecution has reached 114 million, the United Nations estimates. Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip are not abating, and over a million people have fled Rafah in the past three weeks.

Ukraine

22.May 2024. DW

It's hard to leave your home - that's why some Ukrainians stay in destroyed settlements

The evacuation of the population from the Kharkiv region takes place in stages and is difficult, both because of the shelling of the settlements, and because of the fact that they have spent their whole lives in those places, and do not see the point of leaving them despite the war

The refugee crisis

01.May 2024. IM / DW

No one knows where they are: More than 51.000 minor refugees have disappeared in Europe

More than 51.000 unaccompanied minor refugees are missing across Europe. They arrived between 2021 and 2023 and were taken care of by the state

immigration law

13.April 2024. Angela Šemić

Paradox: Refugees can get permanent residence in Serbia, but what about travel documents?

Shortly after the implementation of the new provisions of the Aliens Act, the Ministry of the Interior approved the first permanent settlement of refugees from Burundi. According to the second rulebook, the first Serbian travel documents were issued to refugees from Kazakhstan. But it is unclear whether the rulebook under which they can request travel documents applies to refugees who settle permanently

The number of refugees from Ukraine is increasing.

The war in Ukraine

02.April 2024. MP / DW

UN: If Ukraine loses the war, another ten million refugees are expected

If Ukraine were to lose the war, another ten million refugees could be expected, warn German experts

Migrant crisis

28.February 2024. NR

Over a million asylum seekers: Never more refugees in Europe

The number of asylum requests exceeded one million last year, but the number of people seeking help is actually much higher - because millions of Ukrainians are not included in these statistics

Balkans

30.January 2024 Žarka Radoja

Refugee graves without names on both sides of the Drina

The Drina River, which divides Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, since the Balkan route was diverted through Bosnia, daily takes the lives of people who try to cross it. Identification of the body is difficult

Citizenship

15.December 2023 Milica Srejić

Passports as a gift: Fast-track to citizenship, if the government says so

On what basis did Steve Wozniak and his wife Janet Hill become citizens of Serbia overnight? And why is it better to be a "deserving foreigner" than a Serb from Kosovo and Metohija

Migrants

13.September 2023 MN

The gendarmerie has been patrolling the Subotica area since today

In an operation in the north of Serbia, the police detained about 400 refugees and migrants on Tuesday. They were deported to refugee centers across the country

Society

23.August 2023 MJ

Vučić: By the end of 2028, apartments for all refugee families

The President of Serbia stated that people from the European Union paid the highest cost for the apartments. We did our job, Vučić said, adding that 250 families will live in modern apartments in Ovča, that is, 724 people will get a new home.

Personal attitude

09.August 2023 Nikola Kovacevic

Responsibility is individual

If criminal responsibility were not individual, then we could label all policemen who break the law with the label of corruption or other types of lawlessness, all doctors with the label of "negligent" for certain cases of negligent treatment, all members of the BIA or VBA with the label of drug dealers or murderers because of Jovanjica, the murder of Ivan Stambolić or Zoran Đinđić, or all refugees and migrants labeled murderers, smugglers and kidnappers because of individuals who do this on the northern borders of Serbia

Ventilation

09.August 2023 Goran Vojnović

Edrene

For years Edrene was just one of the many incomprehensible words from the song for me. Edrene, mother, Edrene it sounded sad and melancholic, it was a low cry, and that edrene could only be a sob

Croatia

05.August 2023 BG

Plenković: "Storm" is a liberation action

The central "Storm" celebration is traditionally organized in Knin, and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said that Croatia will never allow an attack on that action or accept indictments from Belgrade.

Germany

02.August 2023 Nemanja Rujevic

Berlin: Park outside the law

The gang-rape in Görlitz Park in Kreuzberg has once again ignited a debate in Germany about the state's supposedly soft attitude towards "criminal migrants". The case turned into a political dynamite, and the fuse was lit by the right-wing Alternative for Germany, which is unstoppably strengthening.

Overview of the week

28.July 2023 Philip Schwarm

The foundations of racism: Fuehrer from the alley of Subotica

What is the mayor of Subotica, Stevan Bakić, doing? He calls on the people who have gone through the hardships of refugees so many times to deny any help to people in the same position, only of a different religion and skin color.

Climate refugees

12.July 2023 Lazar Vasovic

Shared responsibility

It seems that at the moment war is more important than hunger, such a situation only makes it even more difficult to get to know climate refugees. It is clear that there is currently no solution to overcome the problem of climate refugees and the hungry. There, the solution is much easier to find than the one for resolving armed conflicts. The billions sent to Ukraine for weapons could have stabilized the situation in Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan