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<\/p>\nThe invited participants included about<\/p>\n
twenty human rights activists, researchers, social workers and journalists from Bosnia and<\/p>\n
Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Italy, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and<\/p>\n
Slovenia. Fondacija CURE attended the conference to show their support to ACP\/CZA and its<\/p>\n
regional initiative to foster the cooperation between different actors fighting for the respect of<\/p>\n
basic human rights in their own countries.<\/p>\n
On the first night, the participants were kindly invited to have dinner at the R\u00e9fuge social<\/p>\n
bakery located in Novi Beograd and opened the initiative of ACP. At first sight, R\u00e9fuge looks like<\/p>\n
any other Serbian bakery, attracting local customers thanks to an offer of traditional breads,<\/p>\n
baked goods and healthy salads. However, this business is more special than other bakeries; it<\/p>\n
is an entrepreneurial experiment aimed at improving the integration of refugees through the<\/p>\n
Serbian labor market, teaching them practical and managerial skills. After an intercultural<\/p>\n
dinner prepared by one of the employees, a young refugee member of ACP, Rados Djurovic,<\/p>\n
ACP\u2019s executive director, presented us the story of this recent initiative. He told us how<\/p>\n
enthusiastic he was about the project: it is a great platform for integration and he would like to<\/p>\n
expand it. In addition, Serbia is currently lacking workers willing to learn crafts skills such as<\/p>\n
bakery. However, he highlighted that running this type of small businesses is a challenge, since<\/p>\n
it requires managerial and more specific skills, such as knowledge about the machines to buy to<\/p>\n
process the bread. His idea for now is to start small, and then try to expand the concept in<\/p>\n
other areas of the cities. He also explained us why the bakery was not advertised as a social<\/p>\n
project in the local community in order to prevent prejudices from the customers.<\/p>\n
On Thursday 5, the conference officially started with a dynamic round table between all the<\/p>\n
invited participants. During the round table, all the speakers took turns to portray the global<\/p>\n
situation about migration in their own countries, through figures, facts and percentages of<\/p>\n
asylum status granted. For example, the Bosnian delegation pointed out that about 50 000<\/p>\n
refugees arrived in BiH since the beginning of 2018, but granted only about 12 asylum<\/p>\n
protection status in 2019. Another telling example from the region was Serbia, who so far only<\/p>\n
delivered 0.03% of asylum protection. Then, the day went on with a great variety of panels<\/p>\n
about refugees\u2019 success stories, prejudices about migrants in home cultures, or the specific<\/p>\n
situation of unaccompanied minors and their need for psychological support. After that, the<\/p>\n
participants could relax and mingle with refugees in Serbia while sharing a dinner cooked by<\/p>\n
refugees. After that, APC screened a short movie about LBGTQ+ rights in Serbia directed by one<\/p>\n
of its members.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the conference closed on employment facilities for migrants in Serbia and with open<\/p>\n
discussion between the international participant. All of them agreed on the fact that ACP<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
successfully gathered workers with different different backgrounds and working methods to<\/p>\n
facilitate a productive and enriching exchange. Despite these differences, they managed to<\/p>\n
share about their common interests for Human Rights and the integration of people on the<\/p>\n
move. They all learnt a lot from each other, and agreed that safe spaces such as the Integration<\/p>\n
Days are highly needed, in order to freely share experiences and knowledge about lobbying<\/p>\n
governments, international organizations and the EU about migrants\u2019 and refugees\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n
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