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24 Nov 2015
Child Protection Hub for South East Europe and UNICEF CEE/CIS Regional Office are thrilled to announce their collaboration on a new project “Developing capacities and providing support to frontline workers assisting refugees and migrant children in...
18 Nov 2015
Current migration situation in Europe would be much worse if government and civil associations with their volunteers, were not involved. Volunteers from the Brave Phone, Anja Pećnik and Karla Knežević, and Dajana Lukić Demeter, emergency doctor,...
03 Sep 2015
Heartbraking pictures of Aylan, a refugee toddler, lifeless, washed up on a Turkish beach. He is wearing a red T-shirt and long blue shorts that stop below the knee. He fled his home, where he wasn't wanted, sought shelter on an island that didn't...
31 Aug 2015
The ‘Dublin System’ is broken: ‘first or second league refugees’?
A few days ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany will not return Syrian refugees to the EU country they entered first.
“Germany is formally and politically...
12 Aug 2015
A news article from the BBC details the long and treacherous journey of an 11 year old migrant as he tries to make his way to the UK from Afghanistan. The boy's journey has taken a year, having had to travel through Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece,...
09 Jul 2015
The UNHCR reports that as of 9 July 2015, over 4,013,000 refugees in total have fled Syria for neighbouring countries, many seeking asylum in Europe. In June 2015, over 24,000 Syrians, predominantly women and children, fled to Turkey, which now...