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Human Rights Report: AI cites laws that the Kosovo Assembly failed to pass
2025-04-29 09:08:37 / KOSOVA
The suppression of dissent, escalations of armed conflicts, insufficient efforts to address climate collapse, and the growing worldwide backlash against the rights of migrants, refugees, women, girls, and LGBTI people are issues raised in the annual human rights report of the international organization, Amnesty International (AI), published on April 29.
"Each of these issues faces further deterioration in a turbulent year like 2025, unless a global turnaround is achieved," AI said.
Amnesty International's annual report – which shows how well human rights are being respected around the world – mentioned the failure to approve the Law on Assisted Fertilization and Reproductive Health (IVF) and the Civil Code in the Kosovo Assembly.
"Access to IVF continued to be available only in private clinics, following another failed attempt in parliament to pass a reproductive health law that would have enabled IVF services in public hospitals," AI's annual report states.
It also states that the debate in Parliament was followed by "misinformation and hate speech against single women by some MPs."
Radio Free Europe had reported on MPs who opposed this law, citing their belief that it protected "the family as an institution" and that IVF should only be an option for married heterosexual couples.
The same MPs – along with several others – have also opposed the passage of the Civil Code in the Kosovo Assembly – which, however, has not been brought to the Assembly for approval since 2022.
The MPs' disagreements were related to the article that would enable the drafting of a special law, through which the registration of "civil unions" between persons of the same sex would be allowed.
In addition to the failure to pass the Civil Code, Amnesty International, in its annual report, emphasized that survivors of domestic violence belonging to the LGBTI+ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, etc.) "still do not have access to specialized shelters."
REL has also reported on this problem in the past, which over the years has forced domestic violence survivors belonging to this community to leave Kosovo to seek shelter in Tirana, Albania.
The section on Kosovo in this report also mentions the failure of Kosovo's attempt to join the Council of Europe, attempts to investigate and try war crimes cases, the adoption of the Law on the Independent Media Commission - which was, however, repealed by the Constitutional Court last week, and the agreement with Denmark on housing prisoners in Kosovo./ REL
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