30/6/2014, Beograd:  30/6/2014, Belgrade: ASTRA – Anti Trafficking Action and the Autonomous Women’s Centre have launched an initiative that the Republic of Serbia, as a signatory to the European Convention on the Compensation of Victims of Violent Crimes, ratify it. On this occasion, proposals for improvement of the legal framework for the exercise of these rights have been prepared, which were presented at a press conference at the Media Center, on June 30, 2014.

We recall that one of the two reserves put by the state of the Republic of Serbia to the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence is related to the Article 30, paragraph 2, and the establishment of a national mechanism for the realisation of right to compensation to the victims of these offenses.

The initiative, which is open for signature by civil society organizations, is available in the appendix (PDF).