Press Release: Assembly and freedom of organization – A fundamental right revise normative act no. 3, of 15.03.2020
Assembly and freedom of organization – A fundamental right revise normative act no. 3, of 15.03.2020 According to the Constitution, our law on assembly, and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as well as other international documents, freedom of organization and peaceful assembly are fundamental rights of man. Article 11 of the ECHR also
Normative Act 1 surpasses the constitutional competences of the Council of Ministers, violates the principle of the separation and balancing of powers, and human rights and freedoms
A group of civil society organizations believe that the Normative Act with the power of a law no. 1, known as the Anti-KÇK package, goes against important principles that stand at the foundations of the rule of law, stipulated in the Constitution of the Republic of Albania and the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court.
CALL FOR QUOTATION
Subject: Call for quotation on purchasing artistic books for high school libraries. Directed to: All interested subjects that fulfil the criteria and conditions as addressed below. Description: Albanian Helsinki Committee through the initiative “Values based educational activities to build resilience to VE among youth in Albania”, supported by the Hedayah, funded by the European Union
PRESS CONFERENCE
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS OF THE MONITORING OF THE ELECTIONS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT BODIES ON JUNE 30, 2019 The Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC) is one of the domestic organizations that monitored partially all electoral processes that were conducted in the country since 1996. 115 short-term and long-term AHC observers, accredited by CEC, observed
PRESS RELEASE
In the second half of March 2019, the Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC) reported that in the city of Tirana, Local Government Units did not send any written notice to voters in their residences, pertaining which voting center they would vote in on June 30, 2019 and in which ordinal number of voter lists their name
PRESS STATEMENT
The Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC), aware of the grave incident that took place in the city of Elbasan with the killing of lawyer Ravik Gurra, expresses its profound condolences to the family and relatives of the victim. AHC also joins the human indignation of lawyers and associations of lawyers in the country toward this grave
ALBANIAN AUTHORITIES ORDERED TO SUPPLY CLEAN WATER FOR ROMA AFTER DISCRIMINATION CASE
Tirana, Budapest 10 December 2018: A Romani community in Fushe Kruje, Albania have won a case before the Commissioner for the Protection from Discrimination, after taking on the local municipality for refusing to provide them with clean drinking water and sanitation. The Commissioner found that the municipality of Kruje discriminated against Romani families living in
PRESS RELEASE
On 19 November 2018, the Administrative Court of First Instance in Tirana stated positively by leaving in force the Decision of the Commissioner on Protection from Discrimination. Through this decision, initiated by a complaint lodged by the Albanian Helsinki Committee, it is found that the prisoners working in the prison system are discriminated, because against them
Real consultation and hearings with New Ring-Road inhabitants (Astir Area) Necessary
The Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC) has become aware and has followed protests conducted by inhabitants of the Astir area, in Tirana, whose houses are to be demolished as a result of the implementation of the project for building the New Ring-Road. A representative of the Albanian Helsinki Committee held a meeting yesterday with some of
Press Release
Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC), which mission has been and remains to respect the freedoms and rights of citizens, including those of national minorities, expresses its indignation and strongly condemns what happened today in Bularat. A group of persons from Greece used the funeral ceremony of the citizen Kostandin Kacifa, by turning it into a tense