Kosovo Urged to Increase Aid to Wartime Rape Victims (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo will offer reparations to survivors of wartime sexual violence, but an Amnesty International report warns that the law doesn’t do enough to help them and that access to justice remains limited A new report published by human rights organisation Amnesty International on Wednesday says that the Kosovo’s new reparations law, which will enter into […]
Read More →Headlines 30 November
• Belgrade warns for an increased pressure on Association (Koha Ditore)
• Serbian List MPs will not participate in today’s Assembly session (Koha)
• Increased readiness within EU for visa liberalisation for Kosovo (Epoka)
• Prosecution to investigate Astrit Dehari’s visitors in prison (Indeksonline)
• Amnesty International raises Astrit Dehari’s case (Koha Ditore)
• Drenas/Glogovac elections bypass demarcation (Zeri)
• An additional month detention for Vetevendosje activists (media)
• Court requests additional information on Uke Rugova’s case (media)
• O’Connell: Nepotism culture needs to end in Kosovo (RTKLive)
UNMIK Headlines 12 March
• Opposition dilemmas on whether to leave the Assembly (Koha Ditore)
• Government concerned over the arrest of KSF official in FYROM (Koha Ditore)
• Vetevendosje overturns another truck with Serbian products (Koha Ditore)
• Amnesty International requests criminal investigation on police intervention at VV offices (Koha)
UNMIK Headlines 1 December
• Veseli: We urgently need a political solution (Epoka e Re)
• Derguti: Dialogue with Government, impossible (Epoka e Re)
• EU countries: Obstruction unacceptable, return to dialogue (dailies)
• O’Connell: Opposition’s place is in the Assembly (Telegrafi)
• AI calls for urgent investigation into Kosovo Police actions (Zeri)
• Lunacek: Kurti’s arrest at a bad time (Zeri)
• Lavdrim Muhaxheri, Ridvan Haqifi are believed to be in FYROM (Koha)
• Kosovo Police arrest terror suspect in Hani i Elezit (Kosovapress)
• Four arrested in anti-terror operation in Italy and Kosovo (Top Channel)
• ISIS graffiti in northern Kosovo (Zeri)
• Mustafa, Gashi hand over their deputy mandates (Epoka e Re)
• Poll: PDK ranks first, followed by Vetevendosje (media)
Media freedom deteriorates (evropaelire.org)
The Freedom House has published the 2015 annual report on the freedom of the media. The report, which covers 199 countries and territories, ranks Kosovo 100th in the list, compared to the 98th position it had last year. Zekirija Shabani, the chairman of the Association of Journalists of Kosovo (AGK), said he was not surprised […]
Read More →AI: Serbs in Kosovo subject to attacks and discrimination (Tanjug, Blic, Akter)
LONDON – Amnesty International (AI), a human rights NGO, states in its annual report on the human rights situation in Serbia that Serbs are still subject to attacks and other minorities discriminated against in Kosovo, and a special court to try former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is expected to be set up […]
Read More →Amnesty: Serbia, Kosovo to conduct investigation on missing (Tanjug)
NEW YORK – On the International Day of the Disappeared, August 30, Amnesty International urges authorities in Serbia and Kosovo to carry out prompt, independent, effective and impartial investigations against those suspected of enforced disappearances and abductions committed before, during and after the international armed conflict in Kosovo in 1999. U.S.-based international human rights organisation […]
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