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‘Our Countries Needed Us’: How Five Balkan Women Built BIRN

Back in 2005, five women from countries recovering from brutal wars defied the odds to establish what would become a major independent media organisation - Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. Marking the 20th anniversary, this is their story.

Roma children play near by coal-fired power plants in the town of Obilic, near the capital Prishtina, Kosovo in November 2018. Photo: EPA/Valdrin Xhemaj

Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian Communities in Kosovo Face Double Burden of Poverty and Discrimination

In Kosovo, where institutions promise equality on paper, the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities continue to live on the margins of society, locked out of economic opportunities and ignored by policies meant to protect them.

Hussein al-Jerjaw (L) and his brother Asem (R) during a talk, via Zoom video call from Gaza, at BIRN's Reporting House exhibition in Kosovo's capital, Prishtina. Photo: BIRN/Jetmir Hoxha

“Fragments of Survival”: Gazan Artist Shares Art of Resistance with Prishtina

From flour bags to gallery walls, the young Gazan artist Hussein al-Jerjawi brings his testimony of war and resistance to audiences in Prishtina through his work exhibited at BIRN’s Reporting House.

Adania Shibli in Prishtina, Kosovo, on June 19, 2025. Photo: CHwB Kosova/Majlinda Hoxha

Acclaimed Palestinian Writer Reaches Kosovo Readers

Internationally renowned Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli highlights the importance of literary translations in learning from shared traumatic experiences, after the Albanian translation of her well-known novel “Minor Detail” was introduced in Kosovo.

An ariel view of the Prishtina PTT (Post, Telegraf, Telefon) which was destroyed by NATO bombing. June 15, 1999. Photo: EPA/Russell Boyce/OP/FMS.

Kosovo’s Capital Plans Museum Highlighting Long Struggle for Peace

Mayor says new museum will strike a different note – by accenting the Kosovo people’s efforts to achieve peace and freedom rather than focusing solely on wartime atrocities.

Balkan Insight’s First Despatch: Net Closes On Alleged Suva Reka Killers

Screening of the documentary ‘Shadow of the War’ on July 3, 2025 in Pristina. Photo: BIRN.

Film Recalling Horror of Wartime Prison Massacre Shown in Kosovo

Valon Syla. Photo: Association of Journalists of Kosovo/Facebook

Kosovo Prosecution Alleges Journalist Committed Domestic Violence

Ekrem Bajrovic in court, July 19, 2024. Photo: BIRN/Verone Zymberi

Kosovo Court of Appeals Upholds Guilty Verdict Against Kosovo Bosniak Convicted of War Crimes

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