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“I mostly paint women from my community, Roma women, and their faces are sad. I try to depict this sadness that has many reasons,” painter Farija Mehmeti says.
Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK Zahir Tanin participated as a panelist at the high-level seminar “Increasing the participation of women in peace processes”, organised by UN Women and the Government of Italy in Rome on December 3 and 4, 2019.
It’s hard to listen to the details of Flora*’s life. Her husband died during the conflict. Her son did too. And she was raped by soldiers in the midst of this horror.
Cycles of violence can be prevented by rethinking gender norms, a group of young people discussed during a male-led panel on domestic violence.
Focusing on stories of Kosovo women who have survived domestic violence, UNMIK staff came together to mark the global 16 Days of Activism campaign that puts a spotlight on preventing violence against women and girls each year.
On 27 November 2019, Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, met Major General Michele Risi, the new Commander of KFOR, at UNMIK Headquarters.
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 fuselage.
On the 19th 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 necessary condition for peace, stability