“My vote has a value” aims increase of RAE community voters (RTK)
“My vote has a value” campaign is organized by KOSINT 2020, which is a network of civil society organisations who work on comprehensive participation of the members of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo society. Jehona Xhaferi, manager of the KOSNIT project said “My vote has value” has two objectives: “First, to increase the […]
Read More →Kosovo Accreditation Agency axed from European network organization (Prishtina Insight)
The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education has discontinued the membership of Kosovo Accreditation Agency following accusations of political interference and unprofessional conduct, endangering the recognition of Kosovo diplomas abroad. The Kosovo Accreditation Agency’s regional membership in the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, ENQA, a consortium of institutions that ensure […]
Read More →Protests against MHPP in Strpce: Matkos Group halted construction on private land plots (KoSSev)
For ten months now, the citizens of Strpce have been unsuccessfully trying to prevent the construction of mini hydroelectric power plants in this municipality. They are still not giving up on what can only be described as a quixotic fight. They were able to temporarily halt the construction in Bitinja today, given that the works […]
Read More →Launch of the Albanian-Serbian online dictionary (Kosovapress)
Language has been identified as one of the main barriers for interaction and inclusion of different ethnic communities living in Kosovo. In the last thirty years people did not have an opportunity to learn other languages in schools with percentage of people speaking two official languages is declining, the United Nations Team said at the […]
Read More →Only 17 percent of women in Kosovo have property (media)
Most news websites cover a roundtable held today in Pristina on a study for shared property conducted by the Initiative for Justice and Equality (INJECT). At the roundtable it was said that alongside insufficient rule of law, the rights of women remain one of the key problems in Kosovo. Only 17 percent of women have […]
Read More →Climate Protest caps Week of Environmental Activity (Kosovo 2.0)
More than a hundred protesters, predominantly young people, gathered in the center of Prishtina on Friday (September 20), to demand greater action on environmental protections. The protest was part of the wider global climate strike being held around the world on this day with citizens calling for people in power to do more to fight […]
Read More →Quixotic fight of Serbian and Albanian villagers of the Sara mountain against the construction of MHPP (KoSSev)
Residents of the Strpce municipality, both Serbs and Albanians, have been protesting for months against the construction of a mini hydroelectric power plants in this municipality. The ”Matkos Group” continues with the construction, while the locals want to preserve the nature of the national park they live in. Approximately two hundred Serbs and Albanians, with […]
Read More →Education in central Kosovo and its problems discussed at the Gracanica Civic Energy Center (KIM radio)
Poor working conditions, insufficient space, reduced hours and work in shifts, transportation of students, delivery of books is some of the burdens on the education in central Kosovo, KIM radio reported. However, the quality of children’s education depends mostly on the teachers, agree the participants in the education debate held at the Civic Energy Center […]
Read More →“Kosovo’s Chernobils – the silent assassins” (Koha)
The paper carries in one of its front-page stories the third part of a series of article titled “Kosovo’s Chernobils – the silent assassins”, highlighting that there are 110 polluted zones in Kosovo as a result of different economic activities. “Mitrovica has the biggest and most dangerous hot-spots in the Balkans created by the remnants […]
Read More →Eleven-year-old girl forcibly married (RTCG, Kontakt plus radio, RTS)
Radio Television of Montenegro (RTCG) reported that another case of forced juvenile marriage has been reported to the Police Directorate. Kontakt plus radio quoted RTCG that an eleven-year-old girl from Montenegro was married to a groom from Kosovo, announced Fana Delija from the Center for Roma Initiatives, adding that she expects the girl to be […]
Read More →Court awards family of Diana Kastrati €95,000 in compensation (Prishtina Insight)
Eight years after the murder of Diana Kastrati in 2011, the Basic Court in Prizren ruled last week that Diana’s parents, Gezim and Makfire Kastrati, will receive compensation from the Kosovo state, which was deemed responsible for their suffering following the loss of their daughter. The Court confirmed a 2013 decision from the Constitutional Court […]
Read More →Constitutional Court rules sex-change request to be inadmissible and premature (Koha)
The Kosovo-based Centre for Equality and Liberty (CEL) announced in a statement to the press that the Constitutional Court of Kosovo has ruled Blert Morina’s case against the Civil Registration Agency for recognition of gender identity to be inadmissible and premature. In 2018, Morina had requested the Civil Registration office in Gjakova to change the […]
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