Vërri residents demand the waste plant be relocated

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...

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...

Thousands of residents protested a new toll on the Durrës–Kukës highway, arguing that a publicly financed road linking Albania and Kosovo was being turned into an unaffordable pay barrier. The...

Citizens and civil society activists gathered outside the Tirana Police Directorate to demand the release of people arrested after the toll protest. Local businesses also opposed the fee, describing...