Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians

It also includes family pictures that illustrate how Roma and Sinti people were integrated into local life in Germany and German documents and testimonies by Nazis that explain how Roma and Sinti people were systematically dehumanized.

Denis Avdi of the Voice of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians NGO, which co-organised the exhibition. Photo: BIRN/Serbeze Haxhiaj.

The story went viral quickly and was republished by almost countless news portals, media and social media pages, so that now it is still impossible to determine which media initiated the report.

Even with university degrees, most Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian youngsters say getting a job in Kosovo is mission impossible.

Some political representatives of the Roma and Bosniak communities in Kosovo as well as civil society organisations have claimed that the seats their representatives obtained in Kosovo's parliament in the February elections were essentially arranged by the Belgrade-backed Kosovo Serb party, Srpska Lista.

Children with disabilities are more likely to be out of school and excluded from mainstream education in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia than elsewhere, a new analysis by UNESCO shows.

Human and minority rights, the rule of law and media freedom remain endangered in several Southeast and Central European countries in 2020, especially in the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, Human Rights Watch, HRW, said in its latest report published on Wednesday.

The report looks at over 60 countries, among them Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary and Poland.

Roma children at a camp in Mitrovica, north Kosovo, near the Trepca mine complex. Photo: EPA/ Valdrin Xhemaj.

A United Nations trust fund for Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian victims of lead poisoning in UN-run camps in north Kosovo after the 1998-99 war has received no money from any country yet.

The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks has three Balkan governments for evicting Roma families from camps while not offering them any alternative accommodation.

Final results of Kosovo elections, Serbs get 10 seats

PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo's Central Election Commission (CEC) has announced the final results of the early June snap parliamentary elections.

A coalition led by Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo has won 37 seats in the new assembly in Priština, while Serbs will have ten deputies.