Rights groups demand an end to the eviction of Roma and Egyptian families

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...

Students and professors rallied outside the Prime Minister’s Office against a draft law they said would raise fees, reduce student participation in decisions and direct public funds to private...

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...

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...

The Alliance Against Waste Imports and civil-society groups marched from Rinia Park to the Prime Minister’s Office, asking the president not to approve the waste-import law. Protesters used red...

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...