We would like to remind you to choose the month when you will present your organisation in our monthly newsletter. You can choose the most suitable month in the following table and a template that we would like to receive from you can be found on this link.

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Since the organisation was founded in 2003 in Belgrade, Serbia, Atina’s team has been intent to bring feminist perspective and principles to all respective actors, affect the causes of human trafficking and violence against women, improve the position and protection of survivors, strengthen gender equality, and contribute to wider social cohesion. Through its advocacy initiatives, Atina is a constant reminder to state institutions and strongly influences them to change their practices concerning the position of women and women’s rights. Atina is also a founder and owner of women social enterprise Bagel Bejgl, an initiative to provide economic future and sustainability of its programs.

In 2021, Atina published a case study on the violation of the right to privacy and data confidentiality of children victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Serbia – “Mankind owes to the child the best that it has to give”. Despite the fact that it shows a case of only one girl, this case is unfortunately far from isolated. The study represents a cross-section of the current situation in practice, in which harmful actions such as leakage of information from competent institutions are repeated over and over again, as well as publishing the identity of minor victims of human trafficking and details of their sexual abuse in the media.

Independent and empowered women and girls, violence survivors, who have the possibility to stand up for themselves and make free choices are Atina’s greatest superpower.

The NGO Državljan D underlaying principle is the inclusive promotion of human rights and digital rights. We believe in open digital environment available to all and we consider the digital environment to be an important part of the general political environment. To that end we’re focusing on three key areas: digital rights, media literacy and active citizenship. We promote human and digital rights by organizing public events (seminars, workshops, roundtable discussions), performing calls to action in the before mentioned fields, conducting analysis and reports of the current practices in the field and connecting with similar organizations through-out the region.

Project Eticen.it – connecting technology and society through a critical lens of humanism and social studies, analysing and measuring the impact of technologies on our daily lives in the area of privacy, workers’ rights, personal data and more.

Project Mass media analysis – from analysing government advertising contracts that fund hate speech to conducting media literacy courses for youth and elderly, we’re one of the leading critical media projects in the country.

Internet freedom campaigns – From net neutrality to digital privacy, from fair copyright to securing human rights in the digital world, we develop and execute campaigns that feature debates, calls to action, analysis and lobbying for a better legal framework that protects the weak and secures human rights.

Podcast Citizen D – featuring monthly discussions with local and international guests from the fields of mass media, digital technologies and social changes within the tech society.

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To support their network in creating more effective communications strategies, from 20 to 22 September 2021, DFF will be holding a three half-day virtual event that seeks to take a deeper look at how we can use different forms of communication as a tool to bolster and complement digital rights litigation.

The event will consist of a mixture of training sessions, delivered by experts in communications, journalism, and art, and workshopping sessions that will give space for participants to build a communications strategy around cases or issues they are working on.

If you are interested in joining this event, please request an application form by sending an email to projects@digitalfreedomfund.org with “DFF Comms Workshop” in the subject line. To be considered for the event, you must complete the form and submit it by 6 September 2021. 

We highly recommend this event and please find additional information on this link.