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For the ten years of work, ASTRA – Anti Trafficking Action received 14,594 calls through ASTRA SOS Hotline and identified and/or assisted 387 trafficking victims (37% of victims). Over three forth of victims identified in this period were the citizens of Serbia, while nearly for half of them Serbia was also destination country. The most […]

NGO ASTRA – Anti Trafficking Action has a pleasure to invite you to the press conference on the occasion of December 2 – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery and ASTRA’s 10th anniversary. The press conference will take place in Media Center, Terazije 3, Belgrade, on Friday December 2, 2011 at 12.00. Topics to

Nezavisne novine, 10.11.2011    http://www.nezavisne.com/novosti/ex-yu/Veliki-broj-djevojaka-iz-Srbije-medju-prinudno-udatima-114305.html BERLIN – According to the survey of the Federal Ministry for Family, Elderly, Women and Youth, among the girls forced into marriage in Germany, around 8 per cent were born in Serbia, Kosovo or Montenegro. Almost all young women who have to marry a partner chosen by the family in

9 November 2011. Source: Beta Stockholm – Swedish police arrested a man charged with sexually abusing a 14-year old Roma girl from Belgrade in his flat in Goteborg during one year period. Media reports that the arrested is a 25-year old mentally challenged man whose family “bought” a girl from her father whom she lived

T.M.S, M.P. | 8 October 2011 BEOGRAD – Organized Crime Police Department arrested in Belgrade several persons suspected to have committed human trafficking for sexual exploitation as a criminal group. The police arrested Pavle Todorović (29) from Kragujevac, with residence in Italy, Vojkan Đorđević (23), also residing in Italy and Živorad Stanković (28) from Belgrade.

On the occasion of October 18 – European Anti Trafficking Day, ASTRA – Anti Trafficking Action, as an NGO which has been providing direct assistance and support to trafficking victims for ten years, wishes to remind citizens of Serbia that although many activities have been carried out in the last few years, primarily aimed at

Source: Tanjug Zrenjanin – The Zrenjanin Higher Court rendered a uniform sentence of 17 years in prison against Žarko B. for the offence of repeated rape and human trafficking. Žarko B. has been found guilty because he raped, using force and threat, B.C. several times in the period from the beginning of 2003 until the

COMMISSION STAFF WORKING PAPER ANALYTICAL REPORT Accompanying the document COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL Commission Opinion on Serbia’s application for membership of the European Union {COM(2011) 668} Serbia ratified the Council of Europe Conventions on action against trafficking in human beings in 2009 and on protection of children against

Tanjug | 13 October 2011 The police in Vranje have brought Goran J. (43) to the investigation judge under suspicion that he committed human trafficking, i.e. that he deceived 15 construction workers from Serbia into slavery. According to the Vranje polie, Goran J. is suspected that he, together with another Serbian national, mislead 15 construction

Srna, 10 September 2011 PRISTINA – In the area of Lipljan municipality Kosovo Police Service (KPS) arrested eight Kosovar Albanians, six men and two women, suspects in human trafficking and organizing prostitution. All eight persons were arrested in the operation “Klopka” and will be detained for 48 hours, said KPS. KPS discovered that the victim