The member organization of the Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN), Gruaja Hyjnore has continued the activities within the initiative “Sexual education as a subject in primary and secondary schools”.

On December 22, 2021, the Gruaja Hyjnore held a lecture with the students of the technical high school “Mehmet Isai” in Gjilan, where they discussed in more detail about sexual harassment and ways to prevent and report it.

The young girls and boys who participated in this lecture discussed on how to eliminate the taboos that are still found in society around this topic. As a very important step, students valued the opportunity to have as free access and communication as possible with parents, teachers and institutions in case of sexual harassment inside or outside the school.

The Project Manager in this organization, Qëndresa Hajdari has informed the students that within this framework, informative meetings with parents are foreseen, knowing their important role in combating this phenomenon and raising awareness of children.

“We will disclose with parents and teachers the cases that have occurred in the past, as well as the consequences they are leaving on children, families and society,” said Hajdari, among others.

This initiative by Gruaja Hyjnore was supported by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), through KWN’s “Further Advancing Women’s Rights in Kosovo II”, co-funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) through the Embassy of Sweden in Prishtina in the amount o