At a round table on the topic of advancing gender equality and empowering women as precondition to sustainable development organised as part of government’s activities to mark 8 March, International Women’s Day, Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj noted the unequal treatment of women in inheriting property. He said his own father left his property only to sons and this is something that should not happen in Kosovo. “We as the people of Mother Teresa ought to lead in gender equality,” Haradinaj said.
At another event organised jointly by the OSCE and the French Embassy on women’s property rights, President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci noted that one of the major challenges for Kosovo women is no access to property rights which he said happens for a number of reasons. “The Constitution guarantees all citizens right to property but unfortunately in our society to a large degree there are still barriers that deny the women right to property. When women have no control over property, they cannot be economic actors either,” Thaci said. He said that the tradition of women renouncing their property rights is something that needs to change, “starting with each family”.
