Environmental coalition challenges the Vlora Airport plan

Activists and residents marched from Fushë-Arrëz Municipality to a branch of the Fan i Madh River after pollution linked to a copper processing plant. The protest was called “Don’t Kill Our Children”;...

Residents traveled from Mat to Tirana’s Pyramid Square to protest hydropower construction inside their protected area, despite COVID restrictions on gatherings. They framed the protest as a last...

Oil refinery workers from Ballsh and their supporters gathered outside the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure to demand wages they said had been unpaid for more than two years. Workers described...

Residents and activists organized a symbolic protest near the Flim and Urakë rivers as dam works advanced. A community performance of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People turned art into...

After police officer killing of 25-year-old Klodian Rasha, hundreds gathered outside the Ministry of Interior with candles and banners demanding justice and the minister’s resignation. Protests...

Women gathered in Tirana on International Women’s Day with messages linking patriarchy, unpaid domestic labor and the unequal burdens intensified by the pandemic. Organizers said the action also spoke...

The United Miners of Bulqiza trade union published a video appeal asking workers abroad to support their organizing. The union described how privatized mineral concessions and weak labor protections...

Residents demonstrated in Tirana and asked the court to set a hearing date on their challenge to the Seka hydropower plant. They argued that construction threatened the protected ecosystem and their...

Residents returned to the dam site after an appellate court had suspended the Zais plant’s license, saying the company continued to challenge the order. They used signs on the dam wall and public...

Residents of Tirana’s 5 Maji neighborhood organized resistance as municipal police and the Territory Protection Inspectorate arrived before dawn to demolish homes. Residents protested the lack of...