On June 24, the European Commission published its EU Strategy on Victims’ Rights (2020-2025) and promoting five key priorities: (i) effective communication with victims and a safe environment for victims to report crime; (ii) improving support and protection to the most vulnerable victims; (iii) facilitating victims’ access to...
The Commission announced on February 22, 2020, in light of the European Day for Victims of Crime, a new Commission strategy for victim's rights (2020-2024) to be published by summer 2020. According to the Commission's statement, 75 million people fall victim to crime every...
At the beginning of April, the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) published its 9th annual report on its activities covering the period of 2019. Access to remedies including compensation is one of the issues addressed in this report, and...
LEFÖ - Intervention Centre for Trafficked Women and Girls has been providing psychosocial and legal assistance to a large number of women from Latin America, who were sexually exploited in Austria. On 9 April 2019 the court convicted the perpetrators and rewarded 16 victims a...
On Monday and Tuesday 27 – 28 of May 2019, La Strada International organised an international exchange seminar for around 80 participants including national governmental actors, (legal), professionals, NGOs and social workers to discuss access to compensation for victims of crime. The seminar was opened...
On May 27th, La Strada International launched the campaign Know your Rights, claim compensation....