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18–19.06.2019, Skopje, North Macedonia – A planning workshop on the new Regional Project entitled “Preventing and Combating Trafficking in the Western Balkans”, currently being implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and approved by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, was held in Skopje on 18th June 19, 2019.

For more than 20 years, ASTRA has actively engaged in the fight against trafficking in human beings, which also includes labour exploitation. Yesterday, on 6 June, we organized the final event- a round table within the project Labour Exploitation is real. This project, which is part of the wider MY WAY program – Make it

Niš, May 24, 2019. − A seminar for journalists on the topic of improving the reporting on victims and witnesses of criminal offenses, on the right to support and on victim support services was organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia on the issue of on the issue of improving reporting on victims and witnesses

The International Day of Missing Children was set up in memory of six-year-old Etan Patz, who disappeared in New York in 1979 on the way to the school bus station. The Day of Missing Children was first established in the USA and soon became the International Children’s Day, whose symbol was “Do Not Forget Me”.

The Director of ASTRA held a lecture at the Legal Clinic for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. The students were interested in the trends of human trafficking in Serbia, the preventive activities that are being carried out, as well as the situation and rights of

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).

During the trial, a victim of trafficking in Serbia repeats details of the traumatic experiences that have happened to her, SEVEN times in average. A proactive investigation has multiple advantages: a variety of evidence is being collected, and the prosecutor builds a case that is not based solely on the victim’s testimony.

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.