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Decision on confirming ownership over 24 hectares of land to Visoki Decani Monastery not implemented yet (KoSSev)

By   /  21/05/2019  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  Comments Off on Decision on confirming ownership over 24 hectares of land to Visoki Decani Monastery not implemented yet (KoSSev)

The US Ambassador in Pristina Philip Kosnett and EU Office Head Nataliya Apostolova sent an appeal to the Kosovo authorities to implement the 2016 decision of the Constitutional Court which confirmed ownership of Visoki Decani Monastery over 24 hectares of land, KoSSev portal reports. Following 16 years long dispute the Constitutional Court made decision in […]

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RTS: Serb properties in Kosovo – judiciary siding with usurpers (RTS, Radio kontakt plus)

By   /  07/08/2018  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  Comments Off on RTS: Serb properties in Kosovo – judiciary siding with usurpers (RTS, Radio kontakt plus)

Many Serbs facing property and legal issues in Kosovo have decided to speak about that publicly since they cannot achieve justice in a legal manner, due to injustice imposed against them by the Kosovo society, Serbian media reported. Also, smaller number of Croats, Roma and Gorani are also facing issues of usurped properties but do […]

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Stolen Homes: Kosovo Struggles with Wartime Property Seizures (Balkan Insight)

By   /  29/05/2018  /  International  /  No Comments

Almost two decades after the Kosovo war, many thousands of people whose houses or land was seized during or after the conflict have still not been able to get their property back. At midnight on June 19, 1999, Nusret Ajdezi was woken up by a loud knocking on his door. Four armed people entered his […]

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Usurped properties in KiM, Sisyphus’s work for legal teams (RTS)

By   /  07/05/2018  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Serbian national broadcaster RTS continues its serial on usurped properties in Kosovo, this time focusing on Mitrovica, featuring some of the cases. Usurpation of Serb properties in Kosovo and Metohija is ongoing for two decades. There are thousands of court cases opened, while lawyers from Free Legal Aid advise their clients to check every six […]

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Serb properties in Kosovo – in addition to houses, everything is taken away, land the most (RTS)

By   /  23/04/2018  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Serbian national broadcaster, RTS continues its serial focusing on usurped properties in Kosovo, featuring some of the cases. Usurpation and fraudulent sales of displaced Serbs’ properties have been taking place for years in Kosovo and Metohija, thus denying the Serb population right to private property and return. There are more than 5000 cases related to […]

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Law on women’s property rights advanced, but not implemented (Kontakt plus radio)

By   /  20/04/2018  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Kosovo law on women’s property rights is very advanced, but its non-implementation in the practice is an issue, participants in a debate organized in EU Info Centre in Mitrovica North agreed, Kontakt plus radio reported. Ruzica Simic, Director of NGO “Zensko parvo” said women in accordance with the law, have equal rights to property, however, […]

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Serb properties in Kosovo destroyed and taken over, perpetrators remain unpunished (RTS)

By   /  10/04/2018  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Serbian national broadcaster, RTS continues its serial “Pravo na sutra” focusing on usurped Serb properties in Kosovo, featuring some of the cases. According to RTS, more than a million of land plots in Kosovo and Metohija are usurped. There are assessments saying that more than 35.000 residential units were destroyed. While displaced Serbs from Kosovo […]

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Serb properties in Kosovo, thousands of cases still open (RTS)

By   /  12/03/2018  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Kosovo Assembly members adopted some time ago a law on taxation, stipulating owners of usurped properties in Kosovo will not pay taxes until they are able to use their properties again, Serbian national broadcaster RTS reported. Displaced Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija are facing property issues for many years. While some of them managed to […]

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On International Women’s Day, Kosovo leaders discuss women’s rights (media)

By   /  08/03/2018  /  Articles from Kosovo media  /  No Comments

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 […]

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Commission for Return and Community Affairs established (KIM Radio)

By   /  21/12/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Inter-ministerial Commission for Return and Community Affairs was established yesterday, following the proposal of the Kosovo Minister for Return and Communities, Dalibor Jevtic, KIM Radio reported. By this decision two inter-ministerial commissions from the previous government were united, aiming to unite actions of the ministries in resolving the issues affecting the return process and the […]

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Detained in Monastery over accusations of Albanian neighbour (Politika)

By   /  20/10/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Milanka Terzic, 64 years old woman, displaced from Kosovo, was arrested at Jarinje crossing point ten days ago, when she was entering Kosovo under the charges that she has committed a war crime in 1999. Following the arrest, she was placed under house arrest for one month, in the Pec Patriarchate Monastery under constant surveillance […]

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