On May 10 representatives of Kosovo Women\u2019s Network (KWN) together with shelter representatives of Safe House-Gjakov\u00eb, Hope and Homes for Children, Centre for Protection of Women and Children- Prishtin\u00eb, Women\u2019s Wellness Centre, Centre for Protecting Victims and Preventing Trafficking in Human Beings (PVPT), Centre for Protection and Rehabilitation of Women and Children Liria- Gjilan discussed about the amendment of the Law on Domestic Violence Protection.<\/p>\n
The focus of this meeting was the establishment of sustainable funding opportunities for shelters and other day-care centres which provide services to victims of domestic violence and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n
Nazife\u00a0Jonuzi, Director of Centre Liria, has shared with the attendees part of her experience from their everyday work.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition to shelter, we also provide meditation, legal advices, and social counselling for women\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n
KWN Advocacy Coordinator, Adelina Berisha, emphasized the need for such co-operations to accompany the whole amendment process of this law, in order to achieve as dignified representation of the victims as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis law will also guarantee that the work of shelters and day-care centres for victims of domestic violence and gender-based violence will find sustainable financial support in order to provide the utmost services to these victims. This is a moment that should be taken advantage of, as your role and experience are fundamental to these recommendations that we will draft today\u201d, Berisha said.<\/p>\n
After a fruitful discussion, the participants drafted the recommendations sent to the Committee on Human Rights, Gender Equality, Missing Persons and Petitions of the Assembly of Republic of Kosovo.<\/p>\n
The participants agreed with the amendment of Article 31 which they proposed to label: Non-governmental organizations that provide special social and family services.<\/em> Also, in this article it is proposed to ensure that \u201cshelters will be funded through a separate budget line, within social services, provided by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MLSW). Whereas in Article 30 \u201cData Gathering\u201d, it was proposed to \u201cadd a definition which would specify that also the children should be considered domestic violence victims or gender-based violence victims, besides women.<\/p>\n This meeting was supported by UN Women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On May 10 representatives of Kosovo Women\u2019s Network (KWN) together with shelter representatives of Safe House-Gjakov\u00eb, Hope and Homes for Children, Centre for Protection of Women and Children- Prishtin\u00eb, Women\u2019s Wellness Centre, Centre for Protecting Victims and Preventing Trafficking in Human Beings (PVPT), Centre for Protection and Rehabilitation of Women and Children Liria- Gjilan discussed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3340251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3340330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340383,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340330\/revisions\/3340383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3340251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3340330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3340330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3340330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}