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On May 18, the Coalition prEUgovor presented the Progress Report of Serbia in Chapters 23 and 24 for November 2020 – April 2021. The report’s general conclusion is that activities have intensified after a lost year, but that the government’s approach to reforms remains formless, i.e. represents a continuation of the former course called “ticking […]

Today, May 18, within the 30th session of the Commission for the Prevention of Crime and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), ASTRA, United Kingdom Mission to the UN and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) organized a side-event PREVENTING VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTHENING POLICY RESPONSES FOR COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN, as a part of accompanying program.

Eight years in a row, Marija Andjelković, the director of ASTRA, gave a lecture at the Legal Clinic for the Combating Human Trafficking at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. Students were introduced to the trends of human trafficking in Serbia, the preventive activities that are being carried out, and the position and rights

On April 22, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development decided to form a Working group for the revision of indicators for the preliminary identification of victims of human trafficking for the education system. The task of the working group is to draft a new list of these indicators.  A Working group includes representatives

On April 28th, ASTRA – Anti trafficking action, organized the first meeting of Regional working group for monitoring within the third phase of regional project The Balkans ACT (Against Crime of Trafficking) Now! . The goal of the meeting was to share experiences of monitoring anti-trafficking responses on national levels, based on the Monitoring tool

At the session of the European Parliament on December 16, the resolution on “forced labor” in Linglong and environmental protests was discussed, based on the proposals of the Liberals, which were supported by the Social Democrats and the Greens. After the debate, the members of the European Parliament adopted the Resolution on Human Rights, Democracy,

We, the women from the Balkans stand together in solidarity with all women victims of gender-based violence and ask our competent institutions to thoroughly and promptly investigate the case with the groups on the Telegram platform (such as: Balkan Room, Public Room, Gevgelija Hub, Serbian Room, Smokva, etc.), in order to sanction the perpetrators and

Brussels, 26 November 2021 − This week Missing Children Europe’s General Assembly adopted a new strategy – Consolidating Our Impact on Children – setting out the principles and priorities that will guide our work over the next four years. MISSING CHILDREN EUROPE’S STRATEGY 2022- 2025 As the only pan-European membership network focused on missing children,

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