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BALKANS: When Kosovo women avoid reporting domestic abuse

Prishtina, Kosovo grafitti saying "Wake Up!"

WNN MDG Stories (WNN) KOSOVO: Police in Kosovo register over 1,000 officially-reported episodes of domestic violence every year and four out of five victims are women. However, official data is just the tip of the iceberg – not many women dare denounce their aggressors. Data from the Kosovo Police’s Human Rights Department, shows there were [...]

Kosovo Women’s Network charts alarming trend in violence against children

Serbian region of Kosovo in the town of Orahovac (Rahovec).

Francesco Gradari – WNN – MDG Stories (WNN) KOSOVO, South East Europe: According to data from the Kosovo Police’s Human Rights Department, there were 9,772 police-documented cases of domestic violence between 2002 and 2009 – over 1,000 episodes per year in a country with a population well below 2 million, according to the most recent [...]

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