http://www.atina.org.rs/sr/rodno-osetljiv-pristup-u-zagovaranju-i-monitoringu

Gender-sensitive approach to advocacy and monitoring

Refugee integration in Serbia is feasible with politician and media support

TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2018, 16:34 -> 16:56

SOUCE: TANJUG

Refugee integration in Serbia is possible, and it is up to politicians and media how local citizenry will take it; this message is emphasized during debate "Is Serbia ready for refugee intengration?"

Campaigns for improving understanding between citizens and migrants in Serbia

Regional summit of the members of Local networks on the project „Building together“

Local network in Vranje publishes second monitoring report

Meeting of Local Network for prevention and combating human trafficking of City of Vranje, that is part of the the project “Building Together – Community Monitoring and Advocacy”, was held on April 16, 2018 in Vranje.

A workshop for communication with journalists has been held for local coordinators.

„Migrants in Serbia and media - what is the subject of their interest and how to communicate” is the title of this workshop that we organized at the end of March, 2018, within project activities, for seven Local migrant integration support network representatives, which are operating within the project “Building together”.

Subotica is part of the Local network for improving the position of migrants since July last year, and the network's coordinator, Ilija Djukanovic, during the interview for our TV station said that, in addition to networking with other municipalities affected by the migrant crisis and exchange of experiences, they also created the first report on the situation in Subotica, and finalized the call for civil society organizations who applied to carry out activities involving migrant population.

Representatives of the cities and municipalities with the highest number of migrants in Serbia met last week in Skopje with colleagues from Macedonia. On this occasion, coordinators of networks in Sid, Subotica, Sremska Mitrovica, Belgrade, Vranje, Presevo, and colleagues from Gevgelija, Kumanovo, and Skopje exchanged their experiences on the implementation of the project “Building together”.

Projects to support advocacy initiatives of the Local Networks for Advocacy and Monitoring in Serbia and Macedonia

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation, ATINA – Citizens’ Association for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and all Forms of Gender-based Violence (Serbia) and Macedonian Lawyers Association (Macedonia) launch a call for proposals within the project “Building Together – Community Monitoring and Advocacy” funded by The European Union.

The call will be open until 16 March 2018, at 24:00 CET.

Recent research of "Konrad Adenauer" Foundation, Association "Atina" and Macedonian Lawyers Association has shown that the refugee crisis is not over, that it simply changed form, and it implies new needs of migrants, given that they are now staying in our country for longer periods of time. Director of the Asylum Protection Center, Rados Djurovic, believes that the integration of migrants in our society is “much needed”, and that the system, plan and state must have the main role in the process of integration of migrants.