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Serbia: UNHCR Serbia - Europe Refugee Situation - Serbia 2016 in Numbers (February 2017)

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Afghanistan, Albania, Croatia, Hungary, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Pakistan, Serbia, Syrian Arab Republic, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, World

PROTECTION AND SOLUTIONS

Information, identification and referrals of Persons with Specific Needs (PSNs):

  • Over 90,000 refugees, asylum seekers and migrants provided with information

  • Over 18,000 PSNs identified and referred to appropriate services

  • Over 900 interviews conducted, including over 200 pushback interviews

-More than 50,000 benefitted from translation services

Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASCs):

  • Over 1,000 UASCs identified

  • Over 800 UASCs referred to Child protection services/provided with counseling

  • 197 Best Interest Assessments supported through Child Welfare Services

Family Unity:

  • Over 160 separated families identified

  • 39 families reunited in Serbia

  • More than 13 families supported in obtaining birth certificates for new born babies

Resettlement:

  • 11 refugees resettled to Sweden, Norway, France, the United Kingdom

  • 2 cases of family reunification facilitated

Asylum:

  • Over 20,000 refugees, asylum seekers and migrants received counseling on asylum/legal counseling

  • Close to 1,000 asylum seekers assisted with registration and transported to government shelters

  • Over 400 monitoring visits to Asylum Centres conducted

  • Regular monitoring missions to 33 locations in border areas and detention facilities conducted

  • 315 asylum seekers gave power of attorney for representation in asylum procedures

  • 184 asylum seekers represented during asylum procedures

  • 42 persons granted refugee status/subsidiary protection, of which 25 supported by UNHCR partners

  • 4 constitutional appeals before the Constitutional Court supported

  • 3 applications prepared and submitted to the European Court of Human Rights


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