Children are afraid to report mistreatment, only 82 reported for six months.

And according to data from the Kosovo Statistics Agency 61.4 percent of children have experienced physical violence, physical punishment, or psychological violence.

These figures point to a high degree of child violence, Donjet Kelmendi, the Coalition for Child Protection Director, said in an interview for Online Economy.

Kelmendi says that many others for fear of stigmatism are reluctant to report violence.

This percentage speaks of a very high, alarming degree of exercising child violence in family environments. The bad news is that only a very small number of these cases are reported to Kosovo institutions, whether to the Kosovo police or the Centre for Social Work, so the data that is presented for reported cases is very small if we compare them to Mondays that have been submitted according to the survey or research which the Kosovo Statistics Agency” has realised, she has said.

The fear of family stigma, of society and community, many of such cases remain hidden and remain unreported within families”, Kelmendi stressed.

According to Kelmendi, the reasons the violence cases are not reported are many. She even points out that domestic violence is still considered a method of disciplining children.

“Arsyet for failing to report children victim to violence or physical punishment or even psychological violence are many, one thing we should mention is that domestic violence in our families is still considered to be child discipline management, so it doesn't get violent, for other cases that are very serious cases of sexual abuse, the reasons there are other non-representational cases because these are serious abuse”, she said.

Kelmendi mentioned that violence against children is expressed even by those called to protect themselves.

Also unacceptable is the violence that is exercised by professionals who are concerned about child protection, or child education, where they are called by law to protect children and it is sorry and unacceptable that we have cases that are very often reported even in the media of child violence, whether by teachers in educational institutions or even by other professionals who work in child protection, Kelmendi said.

The KMF director stresses how the coalition has repeatedly called for cases of violence against children to be reported.

“We have called for topics like violence to be treated as particular themes in schools so that children know what violence is the forms of violence where they report them and report violence, in order to educate the new generation that violence is unacceptable for years to gradually start reducing violence against children”, it concluded.