CSO Report on Human Rights in Kosovo for 2022 is out!
The fourth joint civil society human rights report in Kosovo for 2022 was published this week and NSI was one of the contributors.
The Report provides an overview of the human rights situation in Kosovo during 2022, including the main problems, human rights violations and challenges to realizing human rights. This report aims to serve as an independent tool to assess the overall human rights situation in Kosovo, thus filling in an existing gap in joint reporting on human rights in Kosovo at the local and international levels, in addition to enhancing cooperation and coordination between CSOs.
Thirty-seven civil society organizations (CSOs) working on protecting and promoting human rights in Kosovo have joined forces to draft this report. In addition to further enhancing cooperation and coordination between different civil society actors coming from different backgrounds, this report seeks to continue providing joint monitoring and reporting on human rights in Kosovo at the local as well as international levels. The report addresses pressing human rights issues and challenges in Kosovo that were chosen after thorough consideration of the local context during a consultative process with a number of human rights CSOs. In addition, the report provides a number of concrete recommendations to Kosovo’s institutions, which aim to improve the human rights situation in Kosovo.
CSOs contributing to this report call on Kosovo institutions and other relevant stakeholders to take appropriate actions and measures, as per the recommendations provided in the report, in order to address the human rights concerns and problems identified and presented in the report.
The following 37 CSOs contributed to the referred report:
Activism Roots, Advancing Together (AT), Artpolis, Balkan Sunflowes Kosovo (BSFK), BIRN Kosova, Centre for Equality and Liberty (CEL), Civil Rights Program Kosovo (CRP/K), Center for Legal Aid and Regional Development (CLARD), Coalition of CSOs for the Protection of Children in Kosovo (KOMF), Democracy for Development (D4D), FOL Movement, Group for Legal and Political Studies (GLPS), Association of Paraplegics and Paralyzed Children of Kosovo (Handikos), Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS), Kosovar Gender Studies Center (KGSC), Kosova Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (KRCT), Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF), Kosovo Law Institute (KLI), Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN), Kosovo Women for Women (KW4W), Kosovo Young Lawyers (KYL), Missing Persons Resource Center (MPRC), Network of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian Women’s Organizations of Kosovo (RROGRAEK), Nevo Koncepti, New Social Initiative (NSI), NGO Aktiv, Partners Kosova, Roma in Action (RIA), Reconciliation Empowering Communities (REC), Roma Versitas Kosovo (RVK), Save the Children Kosovo, Syri i Vizionit, Terre des Hommes Kosovo, Voice of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians (VoRAE), Vullnetaret e Qytetit (VEQ), Youth Assembly of Ferizaj (YAF), Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Kosovo (YIHR KS), YMCA Kosovo.
The full report is available on our website in English, Serbian and Albanian.
