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Refugee and Migrant Response

Children represent one quarter of all refugees and migrants who came to Europe. UNICEF responds to needs of every child on the move at every phase of their

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The refugee and migrant crisis

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Support for the Most Vulnerable Refugees and Migrants – Children and Women

Belgrade, June 2024 - Two years ago, Mariette fled Burundi to Serbia with her husband and children due to political crisis. When the police knocked on their door, they decided to find a safe place for their family. They spent their first year in Serbia at the Krnjaca Asylum Centre in Belgrade. Three-year-old Naël ...

19 December 2023

UNICEF and UNHCR Join Forces to Support Refugees and Migrants in Serbia

Belgrade, 19 December 2023 — The United Nations High Commissariat for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have signed a pivotal Letter of Understanding solidifying their commitment to collaborative action in support of refugees, asylum seekers, and children at risk of statelessness. Th...

18 December 2023

Diar Ahmad's Challenging Journey, Aspirations, and Goals

Belgrade, October 2023 - Eighteen-year-old Diar Ahmad has a dream and a plan. He wants to become a hairdresser and is planning to open a salon in Belgrade with his friends. Looking at Diar's cheerful and gentle face, it's hard to recognize the traces of his difficult journey. The only giveaway may be his modesty. ...

Fostering a Safe and Dignified Childhood

Serbia, Kragujevac, June 2023 – “Getting financial aid in cash works for me. I save this money to be able to buy clothes, books, but also to go out with friends,” fifteen-year-old Alisa tells us. We meet her as she arrived home from high school, where she has finished the year with good grades. She finds physics a...

14 February 2023

A circle of friendship - making wishes come true

Vranje, Serbia, January 2023 – Evgenia left her native Kyiv with her six-year-old daughter Sasha, just a few weeks before the war in Ukraine started. It has been more than a year since then, but her eyes fill with tears when she recalls how worried she was, fearing for the life of her 17-year-old son. Dmitri staye...

28 November 2022

UNICEF supports children and families on the move

Determined to stand with children and families of Ukraine who have endured months of escalating devastation and displacement UNICEF has been on the frontline of the response to this humanitarian situation in the region. In Serbia UNICEF has launched multiple activities including in the areas of protection, child ...

From Uncertainty to Safety

8 May 2022, Belgrade – “When you’re a child, you like being with your friends, playing football and riding a bike. You can do all that at Info Park. The best thing is that here, you can feel like a child again,” says nineteen-year-old Ali* from Afghanistan, in perfect Serbian. He learned it in the 5 years that he ...

Two million refugee children flee Ukraine in search of safety across borders

NEW YORK/GENEVA/KYIV, 30 March 2022 – Two million children have now been forced to flee Ukraine, as the conflict continues. “The situation inside Ukraine is spiralling,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “As the number of children fleeing their homes continues to climb, we must remember that every ...

Guidelines for the protection of displaced refugee children and children inside and outside Ukraine

The conflict in Ukraine has forced millions of people to flee their homes - some seeking safety in other parts of the country, others in neighboring countries. About half of those displaced are children. Many are unaccompanied or separated from their families. Refugee children inside and outside Ukraine are at inc...

Additional UNICEF supplies on their way to Ukraine as number of child refugees exceeds 1 million mark

GENEVA/NEW YORK, 10 March 2022 – More than 1 million children have now fled Ukraine as war continues to ravage the country, UNICEF said today. Most have fled with their families to Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova and Romania. “The number of children on the move is staggering, an indication of how desperate the ...

UNICEF Serbia is Calling All Citizens and the Business Community to Help and Support The Joint Response to Alleviate Refugee Crisis in Ukraine

NE W YORK, March 1 2022 - "The situation facing children and families caught up in the escalating conflict in Ukraine grows worse by the minute", said Executive Director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell, while announcing an urgent humanitarian call to answer the refugee crisis in Ukraine, which UNICEF Serbia has also...

09 January 2022

Refugee and Migrant Response

Since 2015, more than 1.5 million refugees and migrants have passed through Serbia, among whom between 8 and 28 per cent were women and girls and between a quarter and a third were children (out of which 10–50 per cent were unaccompanied and separated children). Despite the de-facto closure of the Balkan route i...