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Unification
of procedures and practices of Civil Registration and Civil Status Registration
in the Republic of Kosovo
Civil Rights Program in Kosovo (CRP/K), on Monday,
May 14, 2012 held a round table upon completion of the project
"Unification of procedures and practices of Civil Registration and Civil
Status Registration in the Kosovo municipalities" which CRP/K implemented in cooperation
with Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS) as a co-financer.
With a research conducted at the end of 2011, which
involved all civil registration centers in Kosovo, CRP/K has concluded that there
was a large discrepancy regarding the implementation of laws and procedures by civil
status registration offices.
The final report sought to identify all the inconsistencies
in practice in all regions of Kosovo, to asses the role of central institutions
and ultimately provide appropriate recommendations for each practice. Recommendations
were addresses to local and central levels of Kosovo public authorities.
Participants and key speakers include senior officers
from the Kosovo Government, from ministries and relevant local and international
institutions, UNHCR, European Commission, EULEX, Norwegian Embassy in Kosovo, Civil
Rights Defenders, OSBE, UNICEF, IOM, UNDP, OHHR, KOMF, ICMPD, CLARD, KRCT, IAP,
MAPL-DL.
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CRP/K’s membership
in the ECRE
Civil Rights Program in Kosovo (CRP/K) participated in the Annual General Conference
of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), which was held on 12-14 October,
in
Malta
. Mr. Naim Osmani, the Executive Director, represented the CRP/K in the conference.
During the conference, the CRP/K was formally admitted as a full member of the ECRE,
and it will enjoy equal rights will all other members.
ECRE started in 1974 when a handful of Directors from European refugee support agencies
recognized the need for cooperation between states to ensure that refugees were
protected in
Europe
. It began as the European Consultation on Refugees and Exiles, an informal platform
of five refugee-assisting NGOs.
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Law on Asylum
in Kosovo, New Draft Law– RSD and reception standards
On 17 October 2011, as the right to asylum in Kosovo was included in the legal system
and has started to be applied from 2008, and also given the lack of institutional
tradition in the treatment of this right, and the commitment of public institutions
for dealing with challenges in the implementation of international standards in
this area, the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR) Kosovo, in frame of the
project implemented by the Civil Rights Program- Kosovo (CRP/K), has organized a
seminar on asylum.
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Support to Civil Registration Agency and Unified
Address system
On 13 July 2011, CRP/K participated at an event that
was organized by the European Commission in Kosovo on the project supported by the
European Union “Support to Civil Registration Agency and Unified Address System”.
Among the participants were the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Bajram Rexhepi,
Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, Mr. Dardan Gashi, Head of Operations
of the EU Liaison Office in Kosovo, Mr. Kjartan Bjornson, as well as heads of municipalities
Kosovo wide and representatives of local and international NGOs.
A documentary on the lack of address system was part of the event that was
held in Kino ABC in Prishtina.