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On the occasion of the International Children’s Day, which is celebrated on May 25 around the world, ASTRA published a report on the work of the 116000 European Missing Children Number in Serbia. The report gives an overview of missing children cases in our country in 2016. Below you can find a press release ASTRA […]

During March and April ASTRA’s representatives, together with the AT Network activists participated in 25 across Serbia (Niš, Dimitrovgrad, Vlasotince, Vršac, Zrenjanin, Vranje and Užice). The aim of the roundtables was to establish and straighten inter-sectoral cooperation in local society in which organizations from the AT Network work. In conversation with a large number of

An international workshop “Cooperation of European Parliamentarians in the fight against human trafficking in the Western Balkans” was held in the National Assembly on May 18, 2017 in cooperation with the Human Trafficking Foundation from the UK. At the workshop, the participants had the opportunity to hear the experience of members of parliament on the issue

ASTRA has continued with the education of the employees in the social welfare system. At the two-days training in Belgrade on May 8-9, 2017, 25 social welfare professionals from across Serbia had an opportunity to learn more about human trafficking, psychological consequences of human trafficking and a process of identification of victims. Trainings are conducted

The AT Network organized round table “When you hear the word ‘sex work’, do you know what is about?” in Niš on May 3. Representatives of the police, social welfare centre, the Basic Court in Niš, the Higher Prosecutor’s Office in Niš, health institutions, members of parliament and representatives of local attended the event. Speakers

Swedish foundation Kvinna till Kvinna organized a meeting of women’s organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo with the representatives of the European institutions and CSOs from Europe, in Brussels on April 24-28. The main topics of the meetings were the EU accession process of the Western Balkans countries, and women’s participation

Within the program “Minority Rights Defenders”, which gathered 20 police officers from Serbia, on March 23, 2017 in Kragujevac, ASTRA’s representative held a lecture on the position of trafficked persons and sex workers in Serbia. She talked about ASTRA’s experience in cooperating with police officers and cases where police work leads to the violation or

A roundtable “Improving Access to Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking”, organized by the Netherlands Helsinki Committee, was held in Budapest on March 16, 2017. Speakers at the meeting were the lawyers from different countries in the region who talked about their experience in representing victims of human trafficking, as well as Nicolas Le Coz