Students and professors protest the higher education draft law

Environmental activists and citizens protested outside the Prime Minister’s Office against five planned hydropower plants in Lengarica Canyon. They demanded cancellation of the concessions and...

Activists rallied outside the Prime Minister’s Office against a hydropower plant in Lengarica, arguing that the water belonged to the community and decisions over shared resources should involve those...

Eight residents were charged over a confrontation with police during July protests against the Gurshpate hydropower plant. The charges followed community efforts to protect drinking and irrigation...

Students from the “For the University” movement interrupted a public event attended by the Prime Minister, protesting higher master’s fees and a funding model they saw as shifting public education...

Roma residents and supporters protested plans that threatened to demolish homes of about 70 Roma families in Selita for a road project. The action formed part of a continuing Right to Housing campaign...

Hundreds of activists rode along Tirana’s main boulevards to protest domestic violence and discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and press leaders to keep promises on equality. Organizers recalled that...

Amnesty International called on national and municipal authorities to stop the planned eviction of 44 Roma and Egyptian families—about 200 people—from Tirana’s Artificial Lake area. The appeal drew...

Residents and civic activists marched from City Hall toward the Artificial Lake Park to oppose a municipal playground project and what they described as the growing concreting of shared green space....

LGBTQ+ activists and supporters held the fifth annual bicycle Pride in Tirana, using public visibility to demand family rights, gender recognition, dignity, and protection from homophobia. The ride...

Around 150 residents, kayakers, artists, environmentalists and public representatives gathered at Qesarat on the Vjosa to oppose planned hydropower dams and call for national-park protection. The...