Even two-thirds of women refugees, who have been involved in a pilot survey on gender-based violence among migrants, have experienced some type of phisycal or sexual abuse.

The Council of Europe presented its new report on protecting refugee children from sexual exploitation and abuse which identified that the key challenges are data collection, victims’ identification and their protection. 

While there is no aggregated data available on the total number of children affected by refugee crisis in Europe, the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children assesses that in 2015 at least 337,000 children were registered as asylum seekers, 88,300 of whom were unaccompanied.

Photography: Marija Piroški

When people say "we are just regular people, there’s nothing we can do", I do not support that, says in her article for the Original Marijana Savic, an activist and the director of the Association Atina, that runs protection programs for the women who are human trafficking victims. In June 2018, Marijana was featured in the Forbes list of eight awe-inspiring women from all over the world, most prominent ones who fight for the refugees’ rights

Author: Marijana Savic  Date: 10/07/2018

They were practicing recipes for months and created a Serbian style bagel
 

BIZLife 
07:42 Belgrade, 11/06/2018

Published on April 28th, 2017

INTRODUCTION

Labris and its partners, with support for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announce the launch of the project, “Jointly Against Discrimination”.  Over the next 12 months Labris, Atina (Citizens Association for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and All Forms of Gender Base Violence), and the Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA) will strengthen municipalities and support

In October Moscow hosted the international conference titled Current system of international humanitarian aid: the best practices and challenges. Marijana Savic, Director of NGO Atina participated in the conference to share our experiences related to the work with women and girls refugees and migrants, as well as our attitude about the importance of gender sensitive approach in humanitarian work. The conference was organized by Moscow State University for Foreign Affairs (MGIMO) and Oxfam-Moscow with the aim to advance knowledge related to the mechanisms of humanitarian assistance.

On Thursday, April 21, a round table “Rights of the Child in the Context of International Migrations” was held in Belgrade. The event was organised within the project “Setting an agenda for Child Oriented Social Reform”, implemented by Atina in cooperation with Save the Children and Group 484.

During 2015, more than 700,000 people passed through the Western Balkan countries in order to reach Europe and find refuge from the war. From the outset of the refugee crisis, NGO Atina has, through its field activities and programmes it carries out - Shelter for the victims of human trafficking - given its contribution in providing protection to the most vulnerable among them.