Full Coverage: Albania

30.03.2007 For the second year in the row IDRA (Institute for Development Research and Alternatives) prepared and published the Corruption Survey report. On 28th of March, the results of the survey were presented in a conference organized by Rule of Law/USAID project at Sheraton Hotel.

30.03.2007 "In the last 10 years, Albania has made impressive progress, and the tasks and work of the OSCE Presence have substantially evolved as well," said Ambassador Pavel Vacek, the Head of Presence on Tuesday March 27 in 10th anniversary of OSCE Presence in Albania.

28.03.2007 On the European Union's 50th anniversary, the Mjaft! Movement activists protested in front of the Albanian Parliament. The activists enclosed themselves in a space circumscribed with barbed wire, which symbolized the barrier between Albania and Europe, and they focused their attention on the lack of national ID cards.

26.03.2007 The second annual International Human Rights Film Festival Albania (IHRFA), which focuses on human rights realities, was organized in Tirana on 14 to 18 March 2007.

14.03.2007 The Institute for Habitat Development (Co-Plan) has already started the project on Roma people in Elbasan with funds of Cordaid (Dutch NGO). The project aims the integration and life improvement of Roma community within the city of Elbasan.

13.03.2007 Last week, the Mjaft! Foundation (the philanthropic branch of Mjaft! Movement) presented the opening of its ambitious "Une Punoj" ("I Work”) project. This initiative will, through an innovative website, create a virtual space where employers and jobseekers can interact in order to jointly improve the unemployment situation in Albania. The site will list all the available labour market opportunities.

12.03.2007 The “Albania Reads” program’s primary objective is to promote reading. On March 7, The Teachers’ Day, this project was officially launched at the “Emin Duraku” elementary school in Tirana. Representatives from UNICEF and the Mjaft! Foundation (the philanthropic branch of Mjaft! Movement) donated more than one hundred books to this school’s library.

05.03.2007 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA announced on March 2 that it has started the work on the preparation of the new Convention on the Rights of the Child Shadow Report. The Report will be prepared in cooperation with the Albanian Coalition for Preparation of Alternative Reports, network of major national NGO's in Albania established in 2006.