{"id":9461,"date":"2017-11-23T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astranvo.pericmladen.com\/?p=9461"},"modified":"2017-11-23T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T14:31:46","slug":"international-conference-contemporary-psycho-social-challenges-combating-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.astra.rs\/en\/international-conference-contemporary-psycho-social-challenges-combating-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE \u201cCONTEMPORARY PSYCHO-SOCIAL CHALLENGES IN COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Conclusions and recommendations \u2013 panel \u201cMigratory movements and human trafficking in the context of EU integration from NGO perspective\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Conclusions and recommendations \u2013 panel \u201cHuman Trafficking, Trauma and Psychotherapy\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On March 15,<\/em><\/strong> 2013, ASTRA <\/strong>organized the international conference \u201cContemporary Psycho-Social Challenges in Combating Human Trafficking<\/strong>\u201d in Belgrade. The goal was to highlight contemporary challenges in combating human trafficking that are rarely discussed among experts and stakeholders despite their importance in terms of EU integration process. At the occasion over a hundred national and international experts discussed about two major issues in the field. They made recommendations and conclusions that should contribute to more effective suppression of human trafficking and easier recovery of its victims.<\/p>\n

The conference was opened by Lucca Bianconi, Head of the Political Section at the EU Delegation to Serbia, national coordinator for combating trafficking in human beings, Mitar \u0110ura\u0161kovi\u0107, and co-coordinator of ASTRA, Tamara Vukasovi\u0107. After that, participants of the conference adressed the issue of irregular migration and its connection to human trafficking<\/strong> and the topic of adequate approach to psychotheraputic work<\/strong> with victims<\/strong> on two separate pannels.<\/p>\n

Actualized by the visa liberalization, high unemployment rate and the poverty, irregular migration is becoming a pressing issue in Serbia. Irregular migrants are identified as persons under a greater risk of falling victim to human trafficking, both because of their irregular status and work and great dependance on people organizing their tranzit to the destination country. All of the curently migrating persons, that is one billion people according to international assesments, can befall into that position. Representatives of organizations operating in countries that constitute migratory route Turkey \u2013 Greece \u2013 Macedonia \u2013 Serbia \u2013 Croatia presented their experiance with the interconnection between irregular migration and human trafficking on ASTRA\u2019s conference. Speakers on the panel on migration and THB in terms of EU integration were Zaid Husain Hydari from Helsinki Citizens\u2019 Assembly and Tuba Dundar from Human Resource Development Foundation from Turkey, Eleni Pasia ahead of the Greek Council for Refugees, Maja Varoshlija from Open Gate \u2013 La Strada Macedonia and \u017darko Had\u017ei Zafirov from Macedonian Young Lawyers Association, Munir Podumljak from Croatian NGO Partnership for local development, Catalina Neacsu ahead of Adpare from Romania, Pablo Rojas Coppari from Irish Migrant Rights Centre and national experts Ivana Radovic from ASTRA and Vladimir Petronijevi\u0107 ahead of Group 484.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t