Full Coverage: Albania

28.11.2006 Gender equality has emerged as an important social issue in Albania. This is reflected by the new master’s programme on gender and development now offered at Tirana University.

27.11.2006 The legal framework in Albania is covered by the Telecommunication Regulatory Entity, the regulatory body on telecommunications and development policies. Although legally its task was to regulate the telecommunications operations and it aims to protect public interests and create transparent regulatory environment, which assists in inciting investments and free competition situation in the telecommunication market in the country is still monopolized and with many abuse cases and corruptive affairs.

24.11.2006 The Parliamentary Sub-Commission for Juveniles and Equal Opportunities in cooperation with the Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania – CRCA, organised on November 21.2006, an open public hearing on children's rights situation in the country. CRCA was supported for this activity by Olof Palme International Center and SIDA Sweden.

20.11.2006 The Urban Forum “Tomorrow’s city?!” will take place on 22 November 2006, at Hotel Sheraton in Tirana. The event is organized by Co–Plan, Ministry of Interior and Association of Albanian Municipalities, in collaboration with the Municipalities of Elbasan and Fier. This national event is organized on the occasion of the completion of the programme “Enabling Good Urban Governance – EGUG II”.

13.11.2006 More than five thousand people defied the windy storm in Tirana Friday afternoon, November 10, to profess their opposition to Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s authoritarianism at the CIVIL ACTION protest in front of the Prime Minister’s office.

10.11.2006 A two-day seminar aimed at improving the standards of judicial ethics among Albanian judges ended today in the city of Durres. A similar event took place earlier this week in Shkodra with the participation of judges from district courts from northern Albania.

09.11.2006 The Chancellor of the University of Agriculture shuts the doors of the auditoriums saying that he was ordered to do so by the minister of education.

07.11.2006 The International Chamber of Commerce in Paris ruled today that the Albanian government must pay back 89 million Albanian LEK (approximately 900,000 USD) in Value Added Tax to the Albanian Education Development Project (AEDP), a nongovernmental organization launched by the Open Society Foundation in Albania.

06.11.2006 The OSCE Presence in Albania presented today the results of a trial monitoring report that focuses on the country's judicial system.

03.11.2006 Under initiative of MJAFT Movement, with the support by IRSH (Young Intellectuals’ Hope), a Memorandum of Understanding was signed to fight corruption in Shkodra University.