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The most common form of human trafficking in Serbia is sexual exploitation. In 90% of cases, victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation are women and girls. Between 70 and 80% of these women have experienced violence in the past – domestic, partner, or peer violence. The experience of violence makes them more vulnerable – […]

In this reporting period, the implementation of formal activities in certain areas from cluster 1 in Serbia continued at an accelerated pace, especially in connection with the constitutional changes of the justice system. The reason for that, besides delays and fulfillment of the revised deadlines, is the extraordinary parliamentary and regular presidential elections announced for

Immediately after the publication of information in the media about the position of workers employed on the construction site of the new Linglong factory in Zrenjanin, on Sunday, November 14, representatives of the A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights and ASTRA – Anti Trafficking Action visited workers in order to get acquainted

On Wednesday, November 10, in the margins of the one-day Closing Conference of the third phase of the regional project Balkans Act Now (BAN III), workshop meeting with the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children and the Head of the Bureau of the Dutch National Rapporteur was held.

On Tuesday, November 9, the final online conference of the four-year regional BAN III project was held. The conference was dedicated to the presentation of the results of the project implementation. The main goal of the project was to strengthen cross-sectoral cooperation, improve institutional adjustment and prepare the adoption of the Monitoring Tool (an instrument

On 18 October, the EU International Day against Trafficking, ten European civil society organizations received their Child10 Award at the Royal Castle in Stockholm, Sweden. Amongst these organizations is ASTRA, who, together with the other nine organisations were awarded for their work against human trafficking and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation of girls. The

Trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children, in particular girls, continues to be onthe rise despite growing efforts to fight it. During the pandemic we have seen that social mediaand other online platforms are increasingly being used to exploit girls online. The exploitation iseither taking place on the platforms themselves, or they are being used

Yesterday, October 7, the European Court of Human Rights issued a long-awaited verdict in the case of Zoletic and Others v. Azerbaijan – 20116/12, in favour of 33 citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who were recruited in 2009 and taken to Azerbaijan where they were forced to work.  The court ruled that The respondent State

Integrating a Child Rights-Based Approach in CSO Programming − A best practice report by the 2021 Child10 Awarded Members. A child rights-based approach (CRBA) is grounded in general human rights principles and standards as well as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and is integral to designing programs and policies that

STATEMENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS, JULY 30 A resolution of the United Nations General Assembly established July 30 as the International Day against Trafficking in Human Beings to draw global public attention to this problem. One of the measures of the successful fight against THB is the