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Starting point Contrary to the international and European standards on long-term protection of trafficked persons, countries report a low number of permanent residence status and/or international protection offered to trafficked persons, remaining the access to their rights limited and queried at a national level.
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Brussels 3-8 November 2019 — As part of the regional project of The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, representative of ASTRA was one of the participants who visited the relevant institutions in Brussels during the consultancy week on the accession process of the Western Balkan countries.
Female Human Rights Defenders in Brussels Read More »
On November 7, at the Tami Hotel in Niš, the International Conference on Capacity Building of the Protector of Citizens – Increasing the Access of Institutions to All Citizens, was held. This event brought together ombudsmen of the countries of the region, as well as representatives of relevant state institutions, international organizations and local governments
Belgrade, October 30, 2019 – The Council of Europe today presented the second phase of the Horizontal Facility Project 2019-2022 for Western Balakan and Turkey, which is being implemented in cooperation with the European Union. This joint initiative of the European Union and the Council of Europe enables program beneficiaries to carry out reforms in
Second phase of the Council of Europe project “Horizontal Facility 2019-2022” presented Read More »
This month, with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Serbia, ASTRA began implementing the project Knowledge sharing and strengthening joint proactive response to THB for the victim-centered approach, with the aim of enhancing protection of human trafficking victims when in contact with the relevant state institutions.
October 10-11, 2019. Vienna: Assessment workshop was organized by the UN Office on Drugs and Organized Crime on how to involve the civil, business sector and universities in the newly established mechanism to monitor the implementation of the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime. In the first panel, the director of ASTRA presented 20
On 7 – 9 October, within the project BAN III – The Balkans ACT (Against Crime of Trafficking) Now!, ASTRA organized a workshop for national experts of the five partner organizations with the aim of exchanging information about the ongoing process of developing five country-specific Monitoring tools. The Monitoring tools, once adopted, are envisaged as
On 23-25 September, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers adopted another decision addressing the government of the Republic of Serbia within its framework of oversight of the execution of judgments made by the European Court of Human Rights. The decision concerns a long-overdue implementation of the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights
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Over the course of 20 years of its work, ASTRA received more than 38,000 calls through over its SOS Hotline, identified and provided various forms of support to more than 500 victims of trafficking. After leaving or being rescued from the trafficking situation and receiving first aid, victims need to go through re-socialization process, which
On Thursday, September 5, at the 8th regular meeting of the Special Working group for implementation and monitoring of the National strategy on preventing and combating human trafficking, ASTRA presented its most recent publication – „Study on compatibility of the law of the Republic of Serbia with EU acquis communautaire in the area of combating
