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Over 47,000 new arrivals were registered in the Balkans in first nine months of 2019. While Syrians made majority of the arrivals in 2015 and 2016, their number dropped in subsequent years, only to increase from autumn of 2019.

More than one third of refugee and migrant children encountered in Serbian capital Belgrade in period July – September 2019 reported about being pushed back from some border during their journey through Balkans route. Almost half of these children testified about experiencing violence or witnessing violence during expulsion.

The number of reports of violent push backs increased in comparison to the first half of the year, when around one third of push backs involving children were reportedly violent.

Centres development of inclusive practices are set up on the basis of the expressed need to innovate and re-organise system support to children and youth with disabilities...

In November 2019 the world marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. South East Europe Children’s Rights Ombudspersons Network (CRONSEE), established in 2006 by the initiative of Save the Children, issued a joint statement on the occasion of this important jubilee.

“This should be a positive example that we should not leave BiH, that we can stay here and change something and invest in progress, technology, in all that is innovative, and thus build a path for ourselves here, develop ourselves..."