children’s rights

Education Ministry Overrules School’s Ban on Long-Haired Boy

Kosovo’s Education Ministry ordered a school in the Ferizaj municipality to allow a five-year-old boy to return to classes after BIRN found that he had been banned because of his long hair, but his parents decided to send him to another school.

‘If we gave up, what would happen to my children?’

Families caring for children with disabilities have long felt let down by the Kosovo state, which has failed to provide either adequate specialist education or financial support.

Childhood interrupted: a story from Plemetin

As we mark International Children's Day, many of Kosovo’s Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian youth continue to live in miserable conditions, plagued by food, education and healthcare shortages with no social or institutional care in sight.

Cub Scouts of Kosovo: learning the skills of survival

The new Kosovo branch of the Scouts of America is instilling a sense of adventure in Kosovo’s kids, teaching its ‘cubs’ to be brave, loyal, kind, friendly, obedient, and to step up and give back to their community.

Spare the rod, spoil the child, the Kosovo family mantra

With 72 per cent of young people in Kosovo having experienced domestic violence, the brazen, brutal beating of a 16-year-old girl in Ratkoc last week is not an exceptional case, but the norm.


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