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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

The Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the OSCE Secretariat, together with the OSCE Mission to Serbia and ASTRA – anti trafficking action, will organize this conference in Belgrade, Serbia, in order to gather and update relevant stakeholders and officials on global trends and challenges of integrating

The Team for introducing the Amber Alert system in Serbia was formed at the beginning of the year by order of the Minister of the Interior Affairs, Bratislava Gašić. ASTRA has a memorandum of cooperation with the MoI on missing children cases, and we run the European missing children hotline in Serbia 116000. Bering that