Full Coverage: Albania

30.01.2007 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania-CRCA, a major children rights organisation, announced today that it has started the procedures to open a branch of the organisation in Prishtina, the capital of UN administered province of Kosovo(a).

30.01.2007 Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, urged Albanian parliamentarians today to ensure that media regulation takes into account the abundance of channels that digital television transmission enables as they prepare licencing regulations.

18.01.2007 The Small Grants Programme helps the World Bank to promote dialogue and information dissemination among the civil society organizations. The focus of the Small Grants Program for 2007 is Youth civic engagement.

18.01.2007 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania – CRCA / DCI Section Albania announced yesterday, January 17, that it will organise the Tirana Children Rights Academy in 2007, the first event of its type to ever take place in Albania. The organisation of the Academy aims to bring children’s rights to the mainstream of human rights and academical level.

11.01.2007 Yesterday Mjaft! Movement protested against the nation’s ongoing energy crisis in front of the Prime Minister’s Office. Mjaft! proposed the inauguration of a new Prime Minister for Albania – Pinocchio - as well as the introduction of a new emblem for the Council of Ministers - a picture of a generator, torch and candle to replace the eagle.

09.01.2007 The Government of Albania is to approve soon new procedures for the registration of NGO's in the country. This announcement was made few days ago when senior officials and consultants from the Ministry of Economy met with a small group of major NGO representatives to present and discuss the new changes in the law.