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High in the Mt Piceli ranges, 12 kilometres outside of Mitrovica, the air is pristine and the vistas are breathtaking, with no scrap of manmade material in sight – save for several memorials and some pieces of airplane…

On the 19 th anniversary of landmark United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, the Security and Gender Group underlines that the inclusion and meaningful participation of women is a…

Nineteen years ago today, UN Security Council adopted landmark resolution 1325, which underlines the central role that women must play in preventing and resolving conflict. The importance of women’s meaningful participation…

Human rights messages will echo more loudly if organisations speak collectively, UNMIK’s human rights partners learned in a joint training. More than 30 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) from throughout Kosovo gathered…

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, met with senior officials from the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris as part of his regular consultations ahead of the…

International Day of the Girl Child 11 October 2019 Agents for change: Girls take up the fight for a better world GENEVA (10 October 2019) – On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, UN human rights experts*…

Safeguarding the environment became a shared language for young environmentalists from different communities across Kosovo, at the first UNMIK-sponsored multiethnic eco camp. In a picturesque spot in the Sharr mountains, 30…

The largest Albanian-Serbian and Serbian-Albanian dictionary ever created is now online. The 20,000-word dictionary was launched on 26 September, the European Day of Languages, by the Special-Representative to the Secretary…

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, met with the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić and the Director of the…

The value of alternative narratives and solutions-focused journalism were discussed by communications experts and artists during an UNMIK-sponsored multi-ethnic panel at Autostrada Biennale, Kosovo’s international art…

This week, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Mr. Zahir Tanin, received the newly-appointed Ambassadors of Austria, France and the United Kingdom to Kosovo at UNMIK Headquarters. Austrian…

Fetije Mirena still dreams of her husband, whose remains have never been fully recovered 20 years after he went missing. “Sometimes I dream of him, but he just turns his back and tells me: ‘Stay there, you are fine’.” He only…