Human Rights Watch: Responsibilities for Serious Crimes and Media Freedom in Kosovo, Urgent Concerns

The headquarters organisation in New York emphasises that journalists in Kosovo were targeted by <x0 ... physical attacks, threats and obstacles in carrying out their jobs,” citing Kosovo Journalists' Association statistics that have recorded 60 incidents against journalists, among which 16 attacks and 22 threats.

The report also records violent events in the northern part of Kosovo from May to September last year and political tensions between Kosovo and Serbia that coincided with this period.

Human Rights Watch also estimates that threats and acts of discrimination against the LGBT community continued during 2023, including their family members, and the response of state authorities is half. At the same time, according to the report, domestic violence survivors “continue to face difficulties in seeking justice and support when abandoning abusive environments. ”

Human Rights Watch also highlights the United Nations organization's failure to “apologise and to pay individual compensation to the victims of the Roma community, the Ashkali and the Egyptian for lead poisoning in contaminated camps for displaced”, which were being managed by the mission of this organisation in Kosovo.

In its global report, the Human Rights Watch singled out 2023 as “a year to be remembered not only for the oppression of human rights and war crimes, but also for unilateral acts of some governments and diplomacy based on specific interests that had a serious cost to the rights of those who were not part of these agreements. ”

But according to the organisation, “with all its grim looks, we see signs of hope” for change. / VOA