{"id":15528,"date":"2020-10-20T20:50:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.astra.rs\/?p=15528"},"modified":"2020-11-29T21:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T20:24:59","slug":"labour-justice-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.astra.rs\/en\/labour-justice-now\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOUR JUSTICE \u2013 NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ASTRA identified the first victim of human trafficking for the purpose of labor exploitation in 2005. Since then, we have recorded over 120 cases of labor exploited persons, and almost a quarter of calls made to our SOS line during 2019 (close to a thousand calls) were related to checking job offers in Serbia and abroad.<\/p>\n

This year, due to the appearance of the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus, is specific. The epidemic has slowed down global migration, even economic ones, but it has also made system failures more visible. In our case, these shortcomings of the system are primarily related to the lack of adequate state response to the deepening economic crisis, increasing the risk of human trafficking for labor exploitation, and inadequate support and assistance to victims of human trafficking for the purpose of labor exploitation. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the ASTRA’s SOS line has recorded an increase in the number of calls over 70%, and a good part of them relate to job loss or fear of losing a job or checking business offers in our country. As for the number of identified victims, by the end of September, the ASTRA Victim Support Team had identified 29 victims of trafficking (including one (1) child): of that number, 24 are victims of labor exploitation – 23 men, including 19 foreign nationals, and one (1) women.<\/p>\n

Project\/campaign “Labor Rights – Now!\" in a short period of realization involved a significant part of the public and reached final beneficiaries. Bearing in mind that the conditions for implementing the project’s activities were entirely changed due to the pandemic of the Covid-19 virus, the emphasis was placed on the online campaign. We had 105 posts on all ASTRA’s social networks in total. Facebook’s posts total reach was precisely 204.660, of which 9.773 engagements, i.e., click on the link, visits to the page, and video views. During the campaign, 25.100 impressions were recorded on Twitter. In that period, about 80% of the posts on this network were related to this campaign. Besides, pages in Serbian and English dedicated exclusively to this campaign were created on the ASTRA website. Serbian page<\/strong><\/a> was visited 600 times, and page in English<\/strong><\/a> 91 time.<\/p>\n