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Microbrewery aims to add new flavors to Kosovo beer scene one bottle at a time
PRISTINA – Kosovo’s first microbrewery Sabaja, located just outside the city in Gracanica continues to find growing...
Recycling and clean-up programs having mixed success
In a small office south of the Bill Clinton statue in Pristina, Nora Cukaj scrolls through a picture album on...
A monument highlights environmental issues, but has limitations
The plastic Reclamation installation covering the Newborn monument was torn off last weekend to reveal the swirling...
Divided mining complex oxidizes amid multiple truths
More than just a bridge on the Ibër River splits Mitrovica, Kosovo. In South Mitrovica, the sky mixes with flags from...
Newborn reclaimed with mixed reactions
The Newborn monument’s Reclamation generated a storm of public discourse after the creator and U.S. journalist Lauren...
For Pristina’s disabled citizens, accessible buildings and walkways are still few and far between
Pristina’s urban landscape, though congested with vehicles and buildings, is easy enough for most to navigate. For its...
Are graffiti messages signs of wider acceptance of gay rights in Kosovo?
The graffiti on Mother Teresa Boulevard has faded slightly since May, but it is still legible enough. “WHEN YOU...
Echo-Girl Storytellers
During the 3-day workshop (16,17 and 18 January), Kosovalive along with the participants discussed topics that relate...
Education continues to be one of the main elements in integration communities
According to the last census of 2011 there are 68 people of the Roma community and 143 of the Ashkali communityin the...
A project which aims the employment of people with Down Syndrome
At the beginning of the year, Eglantinë Avdiu and Gresë Murati, psychology students, and Shend Stavileci, an...
Treating severe illnesses without medication
A.K., an architecture student in one of the private universities in Kosovo, is one of the 90 individuals diagnosed...
Young people aim for “a different kind” of interethnic communication
Fitim Krasniqi, a senior in the Department of Communication in the University of Prishtina’s Technical Faculty, lives...
Students are dropping out of school, not just because of economic reasons
In the 2014/2015 school year, 45 students from the “Eqrem Çabej” gymnasium in Vushtrri dropped out of school. This...
Only around 30 blind people have a job in Kosovo currently
Haki Ahmeti, a 57-year-old, is one of the few Kosovar citizens who has a full-time job even though he cannot see. He...
Kosovar women entrepreneurship still limited to small businesses
Ilire Lepaj, a 35-year-old woman from Prishtina a year and a half ago decided to open her own store which she named...
A mental health center in a village free of stigma
In the center for mental health in the village “Lum i madh” in the municipality of Vushtrri, there are currently...
Vushtrri, like other municipalities, is not spared of theft
Ferat Spanca’s apartment was broken into while he and his family were at a celebration. “That night I hid an amount of...
Youth of Mitrovica pass the “bridges,” breaking the prejudices through joint activities
Forty youngsters, 20 Albanians and 20 Serbians, are learning the English language, near the bridge of the “Ibër”...
Mentality still keeps numerous cases of sexual harassments silenced
S.L., a 17-year-old high school student, will never forget the horror she went through when she was 8 years old, when...
A “special classroom” inside a regular school
A former student of a special classroom in “Ali Kelmendi” primary school in Vushtrri maintained a close...
Teenager’s increased exposure to alcohol, increases cases of excessive usage
During October 2017, at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo, 34 individuals sought medical attention for...
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GAP publishes the report: Will a new law on economic zones boost investments in local communities
GAP Institute today published the report on the new law on Economic Zones. The aim of this draft law is to regulate...
EUSR Lajčák’s visit to Kosovo: Dialogue will continue
EU Special Representative for the Pristina-Belgrade Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues, Miroslav...
Call for experts
IREX is recruiting a pool of local experts to serve as consultants on our Learn to Discern (L2D) Kosovo program for...