KEY INDICATORS
734 Registered intentions to seek asylum in Serbia
38% of registered refugees and migrants were minors
27 Applications for asylum
1 Persons granted refugee status
9 Persons granted subsidiary protection
The number of new arrivals grew again: 1,017 were encountered and assisted in October (as compared to 672 in September). 64% were adult men, 11% adult women and 25% children, incl. 69 unaccompanied or separated children. 32% came from Pakistan, 28% from Iraq, 16% from Afghanistan, 15% from Iran, 3% from Syria and 6% from other countries. 46% arrived to Serbia from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 42% from Bulgaria and 12% from other countries.
The number of departures and testimonies of collective expulsions remained stable - 1,064 in October (as compared to 1,024 in September) - of which 334 from Hungary, 384 from Croatia and 346 from Romania, with many alleging to have been denied due access to asylum procedures and fewer to have been maltreated.
School enrolment progressed well. By end October, the number of refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children attending public primary & secondary schools exceeded 500 (including 80 children who were schooled in the Transit Centres of Sombor, Subotica and/or Kikinda).
During October, all temporary shelters (rub halls and tents) in the Transit Centres Adaševci,
Principovac, Sombor and Kikinda were closed.
Men and boys who had previously been accommodated in the rub halls were moved into other accommodation centres with sufficient capacity such as Krnjača, Obrenovac and Preševo.
More details on reception conditions and gaps per each site are available at: https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/5503 4.In coordination with the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration (SCRM), UN agencies and NGO partners performed a comprehensive distribution of winter NFIs for all the children/minors accommodated in official accommodation centres.
The Council of Europe Secretary General’s Special Representative on Migration and Refugees published the report on his fact finding visit of 12-16 June to Serbia and the so-called transit zones of Hungary.