his new textile factory “Vitex” in Vitia is a partnership between the German company “Wenger Industrie Consulting GBH” who invested 51% of shares, whereas 49% shares belong to a local entrepreneur. The factory will produce pants; women’s blazers, women’s skirts, jeans and men’s suits, and all production will be exported to Germany.

According to the law for the Railways of Kosovo, “Trainkos” is obliged to provide revenues by the tickets sold to passengers. A part of the revenues should be provided by “Infrakos” services, but also by the government or any public authority as a financial compensation for offering transport services for the general interest, or any other revenue or contribution from the public or private sector.

Mervete Hashani, now 24 years old, was forced by her family to get married when she was still a minor. She says that she didn’t want to get married that early because she had goals for the future which her parents took away her by making that decision for her.

The number of job-seekers in Kosovo is higher than the number of available jobs. The statistics from the Kosovo Agency of Statistics (KAS) show that in the previous year alone, 101,773 job seekers were registered, whereas this year there were only 425 jobs that were publicly announced.

One of the principles of the article 3 of the Law for Family in Kosovo reads that the regulation of family relationships is based on equality between husband and wife, and reciprocal respect between them and other family members.

Shpresa Berisha, 18 years old from the Roma community in Fushë Kosova, says that she also went to school only one year and was forced to drop out because of the constant bullying she experienced by Kosovar children.

It is obvious that the youth is the future of a country and its development. The advancement of the educational system and the opening of new jobs is a step in making them aware that their future is in Kosovo and not in other countries,” Bunjaku-Rexhepi says.

A research study that was presented in this debate, showed that the main problems of these communities are severe economic conditions, and not bring informed of protective mechanism where they can address their problems… Discrimination and socialization are viewed as “bearable problems.”

Majlindë Lulaj, head of the Media and Public Relations Office at Obudsperson Kosovo, says that the conditions in the correctional center have changed. She says that in the last visit to this center on May 2, 2017, the hygiene level was satisfactory in all of the buildings where the minors stayed. However, the window mechanisms were still damaged.

“My relatives told me that I was doing the right thing by getting a divorce. I wasn’t the one who started the divorce procedures, it was my wife. Marriage has its obligations and everyone who knew her told her that she should have sacrificed more to keep the family together since she was the mother of two children,” he adds.

“I can’t understand how these mothers don’t show love to their children, how they decide to abandon them so easily. The woman, with whom I shared the room, hadn’t brought any clothes for her newborn, not even a towel to wrap the baby. She didn’t even want to hold the baby,” says Fitore.