Vërri residents resist renewed incinerator construction

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...

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...

The seventh Tirana Gay (P)Ride brought roughly 400 participants to the main boulevard, the largest such event to date, and proceeded peacefully. Activists’ presence contested social stigma and...

BIRN Albania screened Free Flow in Polis, a community at the center of resistance to hydropower projects. The documentary brought villagers’ accounts together with activists, scientists, and...