Tirana’s annual Gay (P)Ride advances family and gender recognition

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...

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....

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...

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...