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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

International Women’s Day – March 8 was marked this year in Belgrade by a march that brought together several hundred participants under the slogan “Arise, the downtrodden of the earth”. Representatives of ASTRA joined the protest with the organizers from the Women Against Violence Network, the Women in Black Network, the Roma Women’s Network, the

ASTRA organized panel discussion “Surviving Violence-consequences on the psychological and physical health of the victims of domestic violence and human trafficking” on November 15, 2016 with the support of the Ministry of Health. Participants at the panel discussion were students, as well as experts, in the field of psychology, medicine, social work, education that come

The Center for Girls Niš organized regional conference “Only Together Can We Stop Human Trafficking” on February 21, 2017. Speakers at the conference were the representatives of civil society organizations from countries in the region and state institutions of the Republic of Serbia spoke. In the first part of the conference, representatives of the Woman

The Center for Girls Niš organized, within the AT Network project, roundtable discussion “Human trafficking – access to the right to compensation” in Niš on February 28, 2017. Participants were the representatives of the Higher Court and Basic Prosecutor’s Office from Leskovac, the Higher Court in Vranje, the Basic Court, the Basic Prosecutor’s Office and

At the conference organized by the Regional Initiative for Migration, Asylum and Refugees (MARRI) “Irregular Migration and Human Trafficking – International Standards for the Protection of Migrants at the Risk of Trafficking with Special Focus on Women and Children” in Belgrade on February 27-28, 2017, ASTRA’s representative had an opportunity to hear the experience of