According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, the number of unemployed in the municipality of Gjilan in 2015 was about 14,050, out of which 6,337 were women.

Blerina Xhaqku, a-28 year-old from Kamenica, mother of two, is one of many women who want to own her own her business. Her husband, Fatmir, has his own business. He is a landscape construction worker. She is not able to own a business like her husband since, according to her,her family did not share the inheritance proportionally between her and her brothers. Thus, it has been impossible for her to make her wish come true.

Lack of perspective in employment and the will for a better living often pushes parents to “choose” which education track their children follow, and sometimes, parents even choose their profession. Even if there is disagreement, usually children are forced to accept “the only offer on the table.”

A.T., 20 years-old from Lipjan, is one of several girls in Kosovo who have been sexually assaulted in the street. She was 17 years old when she was first assaulted in the street near the dental clinic in Lipjan by a 50-year-old man, who offered her money for sexual favors.

A group of young Kosovars decided to start an initiative to change the law for internships. They got the idea by witnessing a lot of interns get mistreated in various ways by their employers.

Medina Mehmeti, a Master’s level student at the University of Prishtina (UP) – Department of Albanian Language, thinks that it is unfair that Masters students are not given scholarships.

Z.B., 40 year-old from Lipjan, is one of the women who asked for her share of inheritance. She heard in television that she, too, has rights for inheritance, and she decided to ask for it. But since her family is big and she has six brothers, none of them supported her, so they did not give her even a small part of their father`s fortune. They divided it equally amongst themselves only.

Pale, a 50 year-old woman, is sitting on a chair in the market in Fushë Kosovë selling clothes together with her husband. When asked if she believes that child marriages are present in the Roma, Egyptian and Ashkali communities, she said, smiling: “I am a good example.”

In the psychology textbook of the 11th grade, among other things, also writes that “man`s brain is for doing whereas woman`s for talking.”

Although Kosovo Police state that they try to keep law and order, the results of a small anonymous survey conducted by KosovaLive with youths 15-20 years old proves that the consumption of marijuana among young citizens of Kosovo is high, despite being illegal.

Eight from the 25 participants in the survey were

A.B. from Gjilan, who graduated this year from the University of Prishtina (UP), could not afford to pay for an apartment and was not accepted in the dormitory. So, she bought another woman’s dormitory ID.

A citizen says that she can buy medicine at any pharmacy in capital, even if she does not have a doctor`s prescription. Even though she says she mostly buys Paracetamol or Ibupofen for which a prescription is not needed, she says that she also bought her father`s hypertension medicine without a prescription.