Kosovo

27.06.2008 The project to build Kosova C thermoelectric power plant will not proceed without prior public debate, involving in particular the population of the area that will be the most exposed to the pollution it will emit.

03.06.2008 KFOR Commanding officer, Lieutenant General Xavier de Marnhac, hosted at HQ KFOR a multiethnic group of Children Ambassadors, which included some disabled children from the NGO Little People of Kosovo. From Film City, they delivered a letter for the children all over the world, with the message that we are all born free and equal.

22.05.2008 The Kosovo Civil Society Foundation completed training for local civil servants on the topic of EU Enlargement Policy and Stabilization and Association Process – Kosovo Case, on May 14.

16.05.2008 Representatives of non-Serb nongovernmental organizations say, after the meeting held Yesterday, May 15, at the Gracanica`s Media Centre, that non-Serb minorities living in Kosovo are discriminated and are not stimulated to integrate into the Kosovar society.

30.04.2008 The Union of Independent Trade Unions of Kosova (BSPK) announced yesterday that is completed the preparations for the protests announced for May 1, International Labour Day.

22.04.2008 Tavolo Trentino con il Kossovo (TTK) with its offices in Pejë/Pec became the first civil society organization in Kosovo to migrate to Linux operative system, through a training conducted by OneWorld Platform Southeast Europe (owpsee) trainers – Jordanka Petrusevska and Sanjin Buzo (April 14-18).

18.03.2008 A member of the United Nations police force in Kosovo has died of injuries he sustained in violent clashes with Serbian demonstrators in the divided town of Mitrovica. While, more than 150 people, including NATO and UN personnel, were wounded on Monday during running battles between peacekeepers and Serbs opposed to Kosovan independence.

06.03.2008 In a letter sent to the Constitutional Commission and representatives of the international civilian administration in Kosovo, Roma NGOs ask for substantial improvements of the draft constitution which has been prepared by the Constitutional Commission on the basis of the provisions included in the proposal of the UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari for the Kosovo status settlements and is currently under discussion.

18.02.2008 The Kosovo Assembly declared the region a new country yesterday, Sunday, February 17, in a long-anticipated step that marks the further dissolution of the former Yugoslavia into ethnically based Balkan states.

14.02.2008 The Peje/Pec based Tavolo Trentino con il Kossovo (TTK), a meeting and focal point for cooperation of Kosovar civil society established by Italian association Trentino con il Kossovo, from Trento, has issued a declaration on the coming resolution of the status of Kosovo.