Report on the shelter the state offers to male-inhibited women

On January 17th, O'S mission The SEU in Pristina released the report éstremortores of domestic violence victims in Kosovo, which in detail speaks of the current state of housing for victims of domestic violence.

According to the report, in Kosovo, in the January-September 2018 period, 1,129 cases of domestic violence were reported in the Kosovo Police, featuring a 148 increase in the same period in 2017 [or, somewhere over 10%]. Furthermore, the report finds that during the same period there are seven cases of deaths as a result of domestic violence, writes Periscope.

In Kosovo there are a total of eight accommodations, seven of which are functional. From January to November 2018, more than 400 women with children have taken refuge in one of Kosovo's shelters.

Annie why Kosovo has a small number of housing sites, even those that are functional face a host of challenges and problems. The housing problems range from not having a special legislation that would have regulated their functioning to energy-lack problems. The key problem of housing is providing funds/donations that would ensure housing maintenance. According to the report published by O The SEU, the biggest responsibility for financing housing, falls on the Ministry of Labour and Social Goodness, which so far has provided about 50% of the funds, while the rest of the money source would have to come from the local level, which is very often not happening.

The report finds that the shelter that at least has finance is that of Pristina, even though this shelter acknowledges survivors of domestic violence from more than six surrounding municipalities, none of these municipalities contribute financially to the shelter. This shelter, again, is on the verge of closing precisely due to the very small budget, due to which it has failed to pay off the 7,000-euro debt in KED.

Another very important problem, reports Periscope, that survivors of domestic violence face is also that children over 12 years are not allowed to break into housing.

In Kosovo there is also no shelter for victims of domestic domestic violence men, even though there are cases of elderly men facing domestic violence exercised by children or other family members./Periscopi