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On 4 August 2017, the Serbian Government adopted the Strategy for Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking in Humans, Especially Women and Children, and Protection of the Victims from 2017 to 2022, as well as the respective Action Plan for 2017 and 2018, six years after the previous one had expired. As emphasized in the previous […]

Belgrade, 7th of September 2017 Publication ref: 676/2017 Invitation to a competitive negotiated tender procedure for the national public awareness campaign on the issue faced by migrant women, children and young man within the project Jeg er en flyktning – Jeg er en trekkfugl – Jeg er en mann; I’m refugee, I’m migrant, I’m human being.

Victims of human trafficking are forced to pass two sets of court proceedings so as to claim their rights. This can take years and causes additional trauma, while the outcome is uncertain, so most victims decide not to claim damages, is the main conslusion of investigative story made by coalition prEUgovor’s member Center for Investigative

With the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Serbia and in cooperation with the Republican Prosecutor’s Office, ASTRA is implementing the project “Enhancing Capacities of Newly Established Judicial Witness/Victim Support Services”. This project is aimed at training and supporting witness/victim support service in courts and prosecutor’s offices in Serbia and Montenegro so that they

SERBIA: Tier 2 Watch List The Government of Serbia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated significant efforts during the reporting period by operationalizing a permanent human smuggling and trafficking law enforcement taskforce. The government identified more victims

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in cooperation with the National Anti-Trafficking Office of Montenegro, organized a conference “Developing guidelines for the application of the provisions on non-punishment of victims of human trafficking” in Podgorica on June 26-27. During the conference, the activities of the OSCE Mission to Serbia were presented, as well as guidelines for

During April and May, within the project “Networking and Capacity Building for More Effective Migration Policy in the Republic of  Serbia”, which the Group 484 has been implementing for the fourth consecutive year with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in Serbia, a number of monitoring visits were made to the

ASTRA’s representative participated in the regional training “Strengthening Criminal Justice Institutions and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe” organized by the US Embassy in Croatia and the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia in Zagreb on May 31-June 2. The aim of the training was to get relevant stakeholders from

Representatives of organizations members of the PrEUgovor coalition, including the representative of ASTRA, visited the institutions and organizations in Brussels on June 5-6. There, they discussed the results of the implementation of the policies covered under Chapters 23 and 24 as part of Serbia’s accession negotiations with the European Union. At the meeting with the