Kosovo’s Prime Minister urged the international community to react after Serbia’s government approved a bill declaring Kosovo a ‘special area of protection’, calling it ‘another hostile action’. Kosovo authorities called on the international community on Tuesday to respond after the Serbian government adopted a draft law declaring Kosovo an “area of special social protection”. “I…
Former KLA brigade founder bolsters defence case in ex-President Hashim Thaci’s trial by telling the Hague-based special court that the KLA was formed on a voluntary basis and did not have the ‘discipline of NATO armies’. Fatmir Sopi, a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, in the Gollak region within the guerrilla force’s…
Kosovo’s Siparantum Choir has achieved major success at the 2024 “Sing for Gold – The World Choral Cup” in Barcelona, earning a Gold Medal and a Special Award for Best Contemporary Program and Stage Performance. Competing against choirs from around the world in the prestigious ‘Adult Choir’ category, Kosovo’s Siparantum Choir has made a triumphant…
An exhibition opened in Ferizaj aims to raise awareness among local women in the fight against breast cancer. “I’m Jeta (Life in Albanian), the definition of what I’ve been fighting for. When they told me the diagnosis, I felt a cold wind through my whole body…,” Jeta said. Jeta was one of the seven students…
A new BRIN’s report reveals that when it comes to open data and digitalization, Western Balkan countries lack infrastructure and resources. The report ‘Open Data and Digitalization in the Western Balkans: The State of Play,’ presented in a conference on Friday in Prishtina, concluded that advancement of open data and digitalization in the Western Balkan…
New report by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights concludes that memories of a war they dont actually remember have a significant impact on the attitudes of the young, reinforcing biased narratives and ethnic division. A survey published on Tuesday by the NGO Youth Initiative for Human Rights, YIHR, in Prishtine/Pristina concluded that although the…
Renowned UK-based curator Fatos Üstek presents her latest book for the first time in Prishtina, exploring the crisis of art institutions amidst global challenges. Fatos Üstek’s path through the world of contemporary art is defined not only by the projects she leads, but also the quiet confidence with which shemoves between disciplines, ideas, and spaces….
Self-harm cases in elementary and secondary schools in Kosovo are increasing as school psychologists can only be hired if a school has over 1,000 students, based on an administrative instruction by the Kosovo Ministry of Education. On October 11, a school director in a village in Kamenica reported to the police that eight pupils tried…
A report from Internews Kosova highlights ongoing challenges in the fight against discrimination in Kosovo’s public institutions. While some steps have been taken to improve physical access to facilities, systemic discrimination in employment and lack of gender diversity in leadership positions remain significant issues. On Tuesday Internews Kosova released its second report on Systematic Discrimination…
Paul Lowe, a respected British photojournalist who covered major world events including the wars in the former Yugoslavia and worked for years in the Bosnian capital, has died at the age of 61. Tributes have been paid to Paul Lowe, a photojournalist who was renowned for his documentation of the siege of Sarajevo, who died…