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For more than a year, within the third phase of the Balkans Act Now project, funded by the European Commission, which aims to promote systematic monitoring of anti-trafficking policies by establishing, inter alia, a national rapporteur mechanism, ASTRA, together with BAN3 partners, has publicly promoted the significance of the national rapporteur and advocated the establishment

As part of the activities aimed at improving the position of victims of trafficking in human beings and related crime, the Association ASTRA – Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings, has continuously, since 2011, monitored judicial practice for crimes of human trafficking, mediation in prostitution and trafficking in minors for adoption. Bearing in mind that

This year, students of the Criminal Police University in Belgrade had the opportunity to get acquainted with the topic of human trafficking and the role of the civil sector in solving and preventing this problem, as well as available types of assistance and support to victims of human trafficking.

At the end of April, the international network of investigative journalists OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting) launched a series of articles under the common name Slave to Progress, which deal in detail with one of the largest cases of labor exploitation in recent history – the SerbAz case. Serbia and Northern Macedonia were exploited

At today’s (June 10, 2020) online presentation of the latest edition of the ALARM report of the prEUgovor coalition, which accompanies the reforms in Chapters 23 and 24, as well as in specific political criteria of the EU accession process, it was pointed out that negative tendencies continued in most areas. The report covers the

ASTRA together with its associates, the international organizations: AMBER Alert Europe,  Missing Children Europe, and Global Missing Children Network, marks the International Day of Missing Children, May 25, actively participating in the international campaigns Football Cares and Don’t Be An Easy Catch. Both campaigns are aimed at children, young people and their guardians to protect themselves from potential

After the state declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ASTRA’s Victim Support Team remained on standby and continued to work in compliance with the prescribed protection measures.

Coalition prEUgovor welcomes the interest shown by the Government of Serbia in the findings of the ALARM report, which this group of civil society organizations has been publishing every six months for seven years, following the situation in the areas related to Chapter 23 (judiciary, anti-corruption, fundamental rights) and 24 (Justice, Freedom and Security) of

Al Jazeera Balkans aired last night (April 28, 2020), a film about one of the largest cases of labor exploitation involving people from Balkans, THE SERBAZ CASE. About 700 workers from BiH, Serbia and Northern Macedonia were most severely exploited working on construction capital state facilities in Baku (Azerbaijan), 2007-2009. The story follows the case