Month: October 2022

Raising awareness among the members of the judiciary and staff of the Free Legal Aid Agency on the rights of persons with disabilities in Kosovo was the subject of four days of training, from 24 October to 27 October, delivered by the EUKOJUST Short Term Expert, Ina Xhepa.

The Expert provided participants with the necessary knowledge on key international standards on the rights of persons with disabilities in the framework of the United Nations, European Union, and Council of Europe, as well as discussing the relevant Kosovo legal framework.

The goal of the four days training was to increase the capacities of justice professionals to comply with the standards on the rights of persons with disabilities established by the jurisprudence of the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD).

Building professional capacities of the Ministry of Justice’s responsible staff on “Effective Communication and Visibility”, was a focus of one-day training held on 7 October 2022 in Pristina. 12 persons involving civil servants and Cabinet staff have been trained in general and specifically to effectively communicate and provide visibility to the implementation of the National Strategy for Protection against Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women including the communication part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence campaign. The training was delivered by the EUKOJUST Medium-Term Expert on Communication and Visibility, Berat Kryeziu, with the technical support of the Long-Term Expert on Public Legal Education/Domestic Violence and Marginalized Groups, Bardhë Krasniqi.

The participants highly appreciated this training and benefited both from the professional point of view and from the good experience of the experts.

The training was delivered under the EUKOJUST project’s specific objective of strengthening access to justice for all citizens in Kosovo, particularly providing technical and substantial support to the Ministry of Justice and the National Coordinator against Domestic Violence in communicating results on the implementation of the National Strategy for Protection against Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women 2022-2026 and Action Plan 2022-2024.