A Transnational Anti-Trafficking Training Seminar for anti-THB stakeholders from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Moldova was held in Tirana, Albania on 6 – 7 December 2016.

Belgrade non-governmental organisation Atina has been fighting against human trafficking and all forms of gender-based violence since 2004, and dedicates a special place in their programmes to the assistance to refugees, and the protection and advocacy, especially of women and children refugees. In Kontrola leta, we talked with Jelena Hrnjak from NGO Atina.

Belgrade (dpa) - Organized crime - along with a variety of schemes exploiting vulnerable people - will be the main beneficiary of recent decisions to seal borders and keep migrants from crossing the Balkans, international aid workers warned Wednesday.

We spent two hours talking with the scholarship students of Konrad Adenauer Foundation about the work of NGO Atina, refugee crisis and our work with refugees in the field. The students were particularly interested to know what it feels like to work with the most vulnerable among the refugee population, persons who have suffered some form of violence or exploitation, unaccompanied minors and children.

As national and international organizations working along the Western Balkan migration route in Greece, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia, we strongly condemn the latest discriminatory and dangerous measures adopted by European countries as part of a broader package of deterrence policies intended to stem the flow of vulnerable people seeking safety.

Risky and expensive ‘shadow network’ leading to EU operates alongside official route.

The day grew colder as it drew on, and under a rain-heavy Serbian sky the huddled Afghans pulled their blankets tighter at the thought of approaching night.

For the hundreds of female activists volunteering along the Balkans refugee route, the migration crisis is both personal and political.