Coalition for Reconciliation in Kosovo established (Radio KIM)
A beginning of the work of the Coalition for Reconciliation was solemnly marked today in Pristina, Radio KIM reports. The Coalition was established aiming to encourage and support the reconciliation process in Kosovo. Kosovo Humanitarian Law Center, Aktiv and Art Polis are the founders of the coalition aiming to improve ethnic relations and at the […]
Read More →Veseli: Investments are growing in every sector (RTK)
Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli, accompanied by Minister of Health Uran Ismaili, inaugurated today the renovated premises of the Cardiology Unit at Pristina Hospital. Veseli said anything is possible when professionalism is matched with political readiness. He added that the message for the people is that in the new medical premises everyone will receive the […]
Read More →Poznan Must Not Forget Fate of Balkan Missing (Balkan Insight)
The West Balkans summit will be a useful occasion for governments to check the progress made to account for the 12,000 people who went missing in the 1990s wars – and remain unaccounted for. This week in Poznan, in western Poland, the countries of the Berlin Process, an initiative designed to foster stronger ties between […]
Read More →Kosovo and North Macedonia MPs discuss human rights (RTK)
Kosovo Assembly committee for human rights, gender equality, missing persons and petitions hosted the homologue delegation from the Republic of North Macedonia. Duda Balje, head of this committee said they also discussed issues which do not concern human rights. “We have concluded that we as Kosovo, are leader of the communities’ human rights in the […]
Read More →Protests against hazardous waste disposal in Gorazdevac continue (KoSSev)
Serbs and Albanians from Gorazdevac and surrounding villages in Pec municipality keep protesting for days, requesting responsible bodies to relocate the chemical waste from the factory compound located in the village. “SWIS” company, escorted by Kosovo police and Kosovo Security Forces transported the chemical waste from former Footwear and Leather Factory in Pec to Gorazdevac […]
Read More →Balkan Addiction to Coal Worries Poznan Summit Panel (Balkan Insight)
At an environmental panel at the West Balkans summit in Poland, speakers including outgoing Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn voiced concern about the way Western Balkan countries are still building coal power plants. See at:https://bit.ly/2YyVBHx
Read More →‘Without water, life cannot continue’ say hydropower protestors (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo Albanians and Serbs protested together against the construction of hydropower plants in Shterpce on Monday, claiming that their life, agriculture and tourism will be affected by the plans if construction continues. See at: https://bit.ly/2RQuNQd
Read More →Hoxha: Domestic violence to be addressed with priority! (RTK)
Kosovo’s Minister for European Integration, Dhurata Hoxha, took to Facebook today to say that the phenomenon of domestic violence must be addressed with priority. “Today Kosovo Police reported on six cases of domestic violence in the last 24 hours. All victims are women, and this shows the gender dimension of this problem. Domestic violence is […]
Read More →Thaci: We all need to fight against stigmatization of conflict-related sexual violence survivors
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci said today in Pristina that Kosovo’s society needs to speak in a single voice in support of sexual violence survivors in conflict. In his address at a conference in support of sexual violence survivors, Thaci said: “we need to seek more support from our society so that sexual violence survivors can […]
Read More →Informal economy: the devil on Kosovo’s shoulder (Prishtina Insight)
Kosovo’s informal economy, a cycle of tax evasion by businesses, elusive governmental oversight and exploitation of workers, will continue to run until political will to formalize the system emerges. As the old saying goes, “When a French peasant paints the devil, he paints him in the guise of a tax collector.” A few hundred years […]
Read More →President Thaci meets delegation of Egyptian community (Telegrafi)
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci met today with a delegation of the Egyptian community led by MP Veton Berisha, congratulating the Egyptian community on the Egyptian Week and on June 24 – Egyptian National Day. “One of Kosovo’s biggest achievements is the integration of communities in society,” Thaci said. He also thanked members of the Egyptian […]
Read More →Catalyzing Financial Inclusion and Women Empowerment in Kosovo (FINCA)
Around the world, women are less likely than men to be reached by financial services. While, more than half a billion adults have gained financial access since 2014, the gender gap in financial inclusion remains unchanged at 9 percent, according to the World Bank’s 2017 Global Findex. In some countries, like Kosovo, that gap is […]
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