Parents

Civil registration rules classify births and deaths

📅 18 Juni 1851

Decree no. 798, also dated 18 June 1851, set rules for registering births and deaths. In a slaveholding society, recording a child’s status could help reproduce an owner’s claim across generations....

A new registration decree governs enslaved people and freeborn children

📅 1 December 1871

Decree no. 4,835 of 1 December 1871 regulated a special register of enslaved people and children legally classified as freeborn under the September law. Registration could help administer a gradual...

Silent rally supports a 13-year-old survivor of sexual violence

📅 10 Februari 2019

Hundreds of parents, students and residents joined a silent rally in Tirana after a 13-year-old girl in Kavaja was sexually assaulted and blackmailed by other minors. The gathering expressed...