SERBIA:
ASTRA TRAFFICKING CAMPAIGN - NAKED FACTS
Women
are not meat. Children are not slaves. People are not a commodity.
NAKED FACTS is the fifth anti-trafficking campaign
which NGO ASTRA has conducted since
the beginning of its work. The campaign seeks to remind both general public and
government authorities that human trafficking problem is still present in our
country, the fact often forgotten in a society increasingly tolerant to
violence and human rights violation.
During
six years of work, from March 2002 until March 2008, ASTRA SOS Hotline received more than 7,500 calls. Only in previous two years, we received more than
3,500 calls, the majority of whom was directly linked to human trafficking,
i.e. to providing assistance to human trafficking survivors during the phase of
emergency protection and care and later, throughout the process of recovery and
reintegration.
So
far, ASTRA has worked with 264
trafficking victims, mostly females,
of whom 40% were children, i.e. persons younger than 18.
All of them were provided with assistance during longer or shorter periods of
time, both through field actions and within
NAKED FACTS, on ASTRA’s and their own behalf, are
presented by Jugoslav Ćosić, Milutin Petrović, Ivan Tasovac, Dejan
Anastasijević, Željko Bodrožić, Branislav Lečić and Vukašin Marković. They have been chosen as men who possess strong
professional and personal integrity and who are known for insisting on the
truth.
Campaign
NAKED FACTS is supported by OSCE Mission to Serbia and ADA –
Austrian Development Cooperation.
ASTRA
Tel: +381
11 26 35 114
SOS hotline/fax: +381
11 33 47 817
Email: astranet@sezampro.rs
Web site: www.astra.org.rs