In 2016, IAN in cooperation with Medecines Du Monde (MDM) in Serbia organized two trainings on psychosocial and medical support to refugees and asylum seekers. The main objective of the training was improvement of quality of service delivery to refugees in the field, through empowerment of all helpers working in the field. Specific objectives were: increased knowledge about trauma, physical …

Project Emergency assistance to torture victims among migrants and asylum seekers in Serbia is designed with the aim to provide medical assistance and psychological first aid to refugees and migrants in their transit through Serbia. Assistance was provided through medical mobile unit consisting of medical doctor, nurse, psychologist, interpreter and field coordinator. Special focus was given to identification and treatment …

Short project description: Provision of medical assistance and psychological first aid to refugees and migrants in their transit through Serbia. Assistance was provided through medical mobile unit (MMU) consisting of medical doctor, nurse, psychologist, interpreter and field coordinator. Project was implemented in Belgrade, Sid – Principovac, Adasevci, Berkasovo and Sid railway station in the period from September 2015 until March …

The project was implemented in partnership with International Mental Health Collaborating Network IMHCN, Association of users of psychiatric services and their families “Dusa”; associations “Prostor” and “In the Family Circle”. Associates of the project are Provincial Secretariat for Health Care, Social Policy and Demography, psychiatric institutions from Kovin, Vrsac and Novi Knezevac and social care institutions from Curug, Novi Becej …

Short project description: Project aims to improve the hate crime (HC) prevention and HC victims´ support in CEE and Western Balkan region through strengthening the professional competencies of HC victims´service providers and other organizations that help people/communities exposed to HC. Project leader is organisation In IUSTITIA from Czech Republic and project partners are HC victims´service providers from Poland, Slovakia, Serbia …

In 2014 International Aid Network, in partnership with the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) and 10 other rehabilitation centres in different regions, started to implement project “Global Holistic Approach to the Fight against Impunity for Torture” (DFI). Overall aim of the project is to contribute to the fight against impunity by using data gathered from survivors of torture …

Short project description: The project is implemented in partnership with Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, which is the project lead. The project combines professional training in models of good practice, independent expertise and advocacy that synergically lead towards a radical reform of Serbia’s mental healthcare system and strengthen CSO capacity to gain public support. In cooperation with the …

Short project description: Due to the lack of adequate community-based services and the lack of appropriate healthcare and social services in the community, lots of people with mental diseases in AP Vojvodina are forced to seek support in other bodies for social assistance, which are far from their towns. Moreover the situation of the existing institutions is insufficient and there …

The goal of education was to increase the availability and quality of services in health care, by improving general and specific knowledge of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases among health care workers, primarily on the territory of the Sandzak region and to train young activists from at least three different NGOs on HIV and other STD infections, the risk …

Short project description: Overall project objective is to contribute to eradication of torture and impunity in Serbian society by preventing torture in places of detention. Specific objective is to improve the efficiency of monitoring, documentation and reporting of torture in places of detention by the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). Expected results: Capacity building and stronger involvement of Serbian civil society …

The project contributes to eradicating torture and impunity in Serbia and the Balkan region through provision of comprehensive rehabilitation for victims and building capacities of stakeholders to prevent and report on torture (Ombudsman office, associations of people from marginalized groups) as well as campaigning against torture and culture of violence. Results: First year of the project implementation was marked with …