The "Anti Trafficking Center" (ATC) is a citizens’ association with a mission of promoting universal human rights in Serbia and Montenegro and the region.
The ATC is a non-governmental, non-profit organization which is trying to contribute, through its programs, to eradicating trafficking in human beings, with a special emphasis on the CAUSES of the problem of trafficking, such as gender-based violence, poverty, unemployment, and the lack of suitable opportunities.

ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
This is one of our most important activities. It has started almost with the beginning of the group's operation, and has been realized systematically through various projects (workshops, seminars, lectures, trainings, and public panel discussions). Our educational activities can be distinguished in the following way:

PREVENTION
Our prevention strategy combines two crucial approaches: the training of and information sharing with those who are “vulnerable”, i.e. potential victims of human trafficking, while at the same time we hire professionals and professionals-to-be in the process of prevention.
Our activities in the field of prevention are based on the understanding that women already have much information on this topic but are not always able to use their knowledge, because many of them are not aware of their rights or do not know how to claim these rights and fight for them. This is but one indication that it is not enough just to raise the level of information among women and young girls.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
The groups that are most vulnerable to human trafficking are youth, students, and the unemployed. We continue with the education of young people in order to ensure that young women and men become aware and well informed, in order to be able to protect themselves. Both young girls and young men participate in our lectures/workshops, what is of utmost importance when we work on gender-related issues.

COUNSELING PROGRAM:
In the course of our work in high schools we encountered young girls who lived in the situations of domestic violence, abusive relationships, incest survivors, victims of emotional neglect, or sexual abuse. The main observation in our workshops was that young women do not confide in others, or that they still live in violent families and relationships, and that they cannot see a way out of this situation. The main aim of this section of our program is to empower young women to find a way out of situations that involve violence and to exercise their right to life without violence.

SEMINARS AND TRAININGS:
These basic trainings offer elementary education to experts who work throughout Serbia with sensitive young people, and they promoting the cooperation between governmental and non-governmental sector. The diversity of various forms of violence means that each situation calls for a different kind of assistance and that, in many cases, several persons and institutions will be included in the support process. The experts have to have sound knowledge about those interconnected problems in order to be able to give adequate help.

PSYCHODRAMA WORKSHOPS
Psychodrama is an active method of group work which uses the elements of theatre for the purpose of raising awareness and recognizing problems, issues, attitudes and roles that we have in our everyday lives. This therapeutic method grew out of social psychiatry, existentialist philosophy, and experience in working with informal groups. It is very similar to role play, and is dynamic and rich in methodological solutions.

Male activists’ group „MEN AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN“
The „Men against Violence against Women” initiative was launched by the team members of the Anti Trafficking Center (ATC). As the ATC works on prevention and education in broadest sense, we decided to work on the deconstruction of patriarchal roles. This initiative views violence as one of the biggest social problems. Physical and mental abuse is humiliating and repressive, regardless of the fact whether its victims are women or men, adults or children.

PROGRAM OF SUPPORT TO MARGINALIZED GROUPS
Taking into account the SPTF An Overview of Policies against Trafficking in Human Beings and the latest report of Barbara Limanovska entitled „The Trafficking of Human Beings in South-Eastern Europe“, we know from the chapters Introduction and Overview that in many countries of South-Eastern Europe there is a lack of information on giving sexual services, since there are few or no organizations or institutions that could offer sex workers information on possible dangers of trafficking in human beings, and a solution to their problems.
Special attention will be paid to emphasizing the difference between victims of trafficking in human beings and sex workers, which has become quite blurred today, at the expense of successful and targeted assistance to the victims.

REGIONAL INITIATIVES:
The regional network of young women and men – advocates of women’s and human rights, gender equality, and against violence against women and children, from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro.

VOLUNTEER PROGRAM:
As a part of this ATC program, through their voluntary work the volunteers have an opportunity: to contribute towards the resolution of an important issue or influence it, to meet new people and make new friends, to learn more about their community, to gain work-related skills and references for future jobs, to offer their own professional skills and knowledge, etc.

COOPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

For more informaton, please visit http://www.atc.org.yu/