Thousands march against the law permitting waste imports

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...

Residents of Vërri protested outside Parliament against a planned waste incinerator less than a kilometer from homes and amid productive farmland. They said authorities had not meaningfully...

Villagers protested outside Fier Municipality against a waste processing plant planned near their homes and farms. Residents called for the project to be moved, arguing that pollution would threaten...

More than 200 LGBTQ+ people, civil society activists, and supporters held Tirana’s sixth Gay (P)Ride despite fears that a large opposition rally could obstruct it. Activists declared their parade a...

Residents again protested construction of the Vërri incinerator, which they said would sit roughly 700 meters from homes and threaten farming and health. Video recorded by Nisma #Thurrje showed police...

Women and girls from civil-society organizations marched in Tirana for equality, dignity, protection from violence and prevention of early marriage. Feminist organizers also used posters and public...