Cost-of-living protests demand relief from rising prices

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...

Albania declared the Vjosa a national park, following years of organizing by river communities, Albanian scientists and environmental groups against dam construction and for free-flowing river...

LGBTI+ people and allies marched in Tirana under the call “Open Your Heart,” combining celebration with demands for equal rights. Participants highlighted discrimination and violence, healthcare...

Human-rights groups and activists called on the Albanian government to reconsider the migration protocol with Italy. They objected that the agreement was signed and published without public...

Residents of the Shushica valley protested for the fourth time against a water-supply project that would divert water from the Lëpusha source toward Himara. They said they had not been consulted and...

The Albanian Helsinki Committee submitted an amicus curiae brief during constitutional review of the Italy–Albania migration protocol. It documented the lack of public consultation and raised...