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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…

The beauty of people and communities connecting through language reverberated inside the walls of Hamam, one of the oldest buildings in Kosovo's multilingual epicentre Prizren, during the city's 18th annual documentary film…

An estimated 43,000 children with disabilities across Kosovo should be in school, but only about 5,300 of them will be returning to the classroom when schools open on 1 September, Special Representative of the Secretary…