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Urgent Call to Action on International Missing Children’s Day   Brussels, 25 May 2023 – Every year, on May 25th, the world comes together to commemorate International Missing Children’s Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the alarming issue of missing children and offering hope to their families. On this day, Missing Children Europe calls […]

On May 22, the prEUgovor Coalition marked its 10th anniversary with the conference “A Decade of the prEUgovor Coalition: Preserving Rule of Law Reforms Without Compromise.” How far has Serbia advanced in improving its standards and practices in key areas that the pre-EU treaty has been following for a decade? What are the main problems

The Organization for European Security (OSCE), in cooperation with the National Commission for Combating Human Trafficking and Illegal Migration of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, organized a regional conference, HUMAN RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE: Taking action against human trafficking and labour exploitation in supply chains, on May 11, 2023, in Skopje. The conference

The Judicial Academy and ASTRA – Action against human trafficking organized and conducted a training entitled “Responsible judiciary – Protection of victims of human trafficking in criminal proceedings” intended for judges, prosecutors, and lawyers from the area of Novi Sad. The training was held on May 10, 2023, at the Appellate Court premises in Novi

ASTRA’s CEO, Marija Anđelković, gave a lecture on the problem of human trafficking yesterday (May 9) at the Law Clinic for Combating Human Trafficking of the Law Faculty of the University of Belgrade. Attendees of the lecture were the tenth-generation students of this unique legal clinic who listened to the class on combating human trafficking

Lessons Learned and Guidelines for Improvement The announced amendments to the Law on the Employment of Foreigners and the Law on Foreigners inspire hope that there will be an improvement in the protection of human and labour rights of workers of foreign origin in Serbia. That was one of the few positive conclusions from the

The Global Detention Project, on 25th April, organized the fourth in its series of webinars exploring how civil society organizations can effectively engage with human rights monitoring mechanisms to promote the rights of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in immigration detention. In this webinar, global experts on human trafficking talked about how the principle of non-punishment

The prEUgovor coalition presented “Institutional Barometer 3.0”, a new independent assessment of the effectiveness of institutions in the implementation of policies in the areas covered by chapters 23 and 24 of the accession negotiations between Serbia and the European Union, on April 20, at the Metropol Palace Hotel in Belgrade. A methodology has been devised

Roma girls aged 15 to 18 are one of the most frequent victims of human trafficking and labour exploitation in the returnee population, according to representatives of civil society organizations that provide support to the returnee population. Other insights and recommendations for improving work with returnee population can be found in the document Report on

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia, on December 22, 2022, issued a decision accepting the constitutional appeal of ASTRA’s client, minor N.N. The Court determined that in the process of concluding an agreement on the recognition of a criminal offence from October 2021 and the proceedings of the High Court in Jagodina, which