Delicacy Monday – Food, Dance and Safe place – for Everyone
May, warm yet pleasant weather. Pots full of food – chopped, fried, cooked and stirred with love by the students from the Hospitality and Tourism School and young refugees from Iraq and Burundi, Karoh and Lorraine, are being served into the KC Grad on the Sava...
Goodwill ambassador MIYAVI visits Serbia
By: Mirjana Milenkovski, Belgrade, Serbia “I know you! I saw you in Lebanon!!” exclaimed a little Syrian refugee boy who arrived in Serbia a couple of months ago with his parents and siblings. As life has a way of arranging it, MIYAVI and given a concert in a refugee...
UNHCR opened an exhibition displaying objects from refugees and celebrities who support them
Belgrade, 21 Jun – Honoring World Refugee Day, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, opened the exhibition “What They Took with Them” at the Ethnographic Museum. The exhibition was dedicated to all those who were forced to flee their homes due to wars and persecution. The...
UNHCR kickstarted the awarness-raising project “In their sneakers” aimed at secondary school pupils in Serbia
Belgrade, April 17 – How it feels to, at least for a day, walk in refugee “sneakers” and experience the overnight loss of everything that matters in one’s life became a bit clearer to the participants of the workshop on refugee integration, which was organized in...
SUPPORTING REFUGEES – MORE COLLABORATION NEEDED, INCLUDING THE PRIVATE SECTOR
There is a great potential for private sector engagement in supporting refugees in Serbia, as more joint work across the society is required to provide for their enhanced integration. Commencing the integration process as soon as refugees arrive to the country, as...
CONTINUATION OF COOPERATION TO ERADICATE STATELESSNESSIN SERBIA
Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government, Marija Obradović, Deputy Ombudsman Jelena Stojanović and the Representative of the UN Refugee Agency in Serbia, Francesca Bonelli signed today the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on continuation of...
“70th Anniversary of the Refugee Convention – Lessons Learned and Prospects for the Future”
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia 16 December 2021 Wrapping up a successful year, UNHCR Serbia has devoted its final public event in 2021 to the marking of two very important anniversaries: the 70th anniversary of the Convention on the Status of Refugees...
UNHCR announced the winners of high school competition “Welcome to my country”
UN Refugee Agency (UNCHR) is pleased to announce the winners of state high school competition “Welcome to my country”, within which high school pupils from all over Serbia have shown their creativity under the topic of refugees’ rights and their inclusion in local...
UNHCR PRESENTED SHORT FILM “WHAT THEY TOOK WITH THEM”
Besides Branka Katić, UNHCR’s High Profile Supporter, short film’s cast includes renown actors and actresses Jasna Đuričić, Mladen Sovilj, Nedim Nezirović, Jana Milosavljević, Miloš Petrović Trojpec, Aleksandar Vučković, Branimir Popović, as well as writer Vladimir...