ZAGREB, April 19, 2018 - Austria's government on Thursday approved an asylum bill which envisages stricter asylum measures, but the bill has been met with criticism as it could lead to huge costs, Austrian media have reported.

ZAGREB, April 18, 2018 - The nongovernmental organisations "Are you Syrious" and the Centre for Peace Studies (CMS) and representatives of a law firm hired to protect refugees' rights said on Wednesday that the Ministry of the Interior and police were exerting pressure on them with the aim of diverting the public's attention from an investigation into the death of six-year-old Afghan migrant girl Madina Hosseini.

ZAGREB, April 12, 2018 - The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in Croatia and the Institute for Youth Development and Innovativity (IRIM) on Thursday signed an agreement of cooperation that will provide workshops for refugees so that they can learn computer programming and, in that way, be better included in society and the labour market.

ZAGREB, April 11, 2018 - The representative of the agency of the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Croatia Giuseppe DiCaro has said that Croatia is setting a positive example of care for refugees from Syria and other Middle East countries, by accommodating 560 refugees and helping 100 of them to find work.

ZAGREB, April 10, 2018 - Three migrants were seriously injured after jumping from a bridge over the River Mrežnica near Generalski Stol in the night between Monday and Tuesday while fleeing police. Two have been taken to hospital in Karlovac and one to Ogulin, 50 kilometres south of Zagreb.

ZAGREB, April 7, 2018 - A peaceful rally of solidarity with Syrian citizens, who have been living the horrors of war for seven years, was held in downtown Zagreb on Friday evening.

ZAGREB, April 6, 2018 - The Centre for Peace Studies (CMS) said on Friday the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had urgently forwarded to the lawyer of the family of an Afghan girl killed last year a decision on a temporary measure ordering the Croatian Interior Ministry to immediately place them in an environment in which they will not be exposed to inhumane or humiliating treatment.

ZAGREB, April 5, 2018 - The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) on Thursday opened the SOL Refugee Integration Centre in the eastern Zagreb suburb of Dubrava in an effort to provide support for persons and families granted refugee status in Croatia.

ZAGREB, April 5, 2018 - The number of migrants illegally crossing the Slovenian border in the first quarter of 2018 was higher on the year, but the rise was not as dramatic as during the 2015-16 refugee crisis, although the structure of migrants is changing, with more and more applying for asylum in Slovenia after the police find them, Slovenian police said on Thursday.

ZAGREB, April 4, 2018 - The number of migrants in Serbia has been declining steadily since August 2017, the country's commissioner for refugees and migrants Vladmir Cucić said in an interview with the Večernje Novosti newspaper on Wednesday.