A Close Term for Victims of Sexual Violence

According to official data, out of the 20,000 victims allegedly sexually violated during the war in Kosovo, only 2,000 of them have applied to the Governing Commission for Recognition and Verification of Sex Violence Survivors.

Status has so far been recognised by 1500 victims and in the process of recognition or even cases in courts as the cause of rejection are 500 victims.

“The figure victim 24” is one of the victims who, for RTK, have, over the years confessed to the sexual violence they experienced during the war in Kosovo.

Although she has been accepted the status of the victim of sexual violence, she speaks of the challenges she has been through to obtain that status.

Like this victim, about 2,000 more applied for the status acquisition. This deadline has ended on 5 February this year until it is learned that about 1500 women and men have so far been recognised as the status of the victim of sexual violence.

Feride Rushiti from the Kosovar Centre for the rehabilitation of Torture Survivors requires that the application process for obtaining the status of the sex violence victim has no time limit.

And for cases in the Rushiti Court, it shows how the cases of these victims were won.

Regarding the application and process as a whole, RTK has contacted the chairman of the government commission, Luljeta Selmani, who has not responded to our interest in talking about applications, but also the complaints of persons who have been denied status.

Organisations dealing with rehabilitation of victims of torture also require extensions of the application deadline.