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This year, a conference on the occasion of October 18, the European Anti-Trafficking Day, organized by the Austrian Task Force on Combating Human Trafficking, and in cooperation with the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), was held is online on October 14 and 15. The conference

Open Gate / La Strada Macedonia and La Strada International from January 2018 – December 2020, implement the project “Recognize, Respect, Realize Rights” in the Republic of North Macedonia, in order to strengthen civic activism and build the capacity of civil society organizations in North Macedonia.

Since the beginning of the year, 41 victims of human trafficking have been identified in Serbia. Compared to the number of officially confirmed victims over the past year (39 persons), this figure indicates a significant increase. It should be noted that the number of officially identified victims of human trafficking in Serbia from 2013 to

On September 25, at the Metropol Palace Hotel in Belgrade, a conference entitled “Rights of particularly vulnerable groups of children in the justice system of the Republic of Serbia” was held. The conference aimed to present the results of the project “Child Rights in Serbia – Improving Outcomes for Children in the Serbian Justice System

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