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ASTRA, Autonomous Women’s Center and Women in Black, in cooperation with BeFem, launched a campaign to promote the recommendations of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

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During the period January to April 2019, within the project “Who Defends Defenders” (WDD), which the Share Foundation conducts in cooperation with Civil Rights Defenders, ASTRA representatives attended group and individual trainings.

Belgrade, April 15, 2019 –Representatives of ASTRA and Autonomous women’s center participated at the meeting with Syrian activists living and working in Germany organized by the Women in black.

Belgrade, April 15, 2019 – Director of ASTRA held a lecture during the spring semester 2018/2019, to the students of Violence against women course, at the Faculty of Political Sciences and the Center for Women’s Studies, organized by Tanja Ignjatović, course coordinator.

Strasbourg, 8-9 April, 2019. – ASTRA representative participated at the international conference organized by the Council of Europe with the aim of strengthening the role of civil society in preventing and combating child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Vienna, April, 8th-9th, 2019.- The Director of ASTRA Marija Andjelkovic participated in the 19th conference of the Alliance Against Trafficking in Persons organized by the Office of the Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings at the OSCE.

We have had the opportunity to host three colleagues from Montenegrin woman’s loby. Our dear colleagues visited us because they are gathering information about procedure for licensing SOS hotline service for victims of human trafficking in Montenegro.

Main subject was „Improvement of victims’ access to compensation for damages“. The training was organised by the Council of Europe under the project „Prevention and combatting trafficking in human beings in Serbia “, which is a part of the joint programme „Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey“ co-founded by the Council of Europe

[kc_row use_container=”yes” _id=”549458″ cols_gap=”{`kc-css`:{}}” force=”__empty__” css_custom=”{`kc-css`:{`any`:{`custom`:{`custom|`:`position: relative;z-index: 10;`}}}}”][kc_column width=”12/12″ video_mute=”no” _id=”348823″][kc_column_text _id=”606707″] Between 21st and 22nd March 2019, ASTRA had organized training for new peer educators on human trafficking topic. At that education, participators had opportunity to learn something more about human trafficking and performing workshops with youths. On first day of training, instructors from