Zall-Gjoçaj residents stage a symbolic protest beside the threatened river

Municipal Police and the National Inspectorate for Territorial Protection completed demolition of the Selita market during COVID-19 restrictions. The market had supported around 30 Roma and Egyptian...

LGBTQ+ organizers continued Pride online during social distancing, treating the annual gathering as an ongoing process of solidarity rather than a single street event. More than 100 activists and...

Activists and residents marched from Fushë-Arrëz Municipality to a branch of the Fan i Madh River after pollution linked to a copper processing plant. The protest was called “Don’t Kill Our Children”;...

Residents traveled from Mat to Tirana’s Pyramid Square to protest hydropower construction inside their protected area, despite COVID restrictions on gatherings. They framed the protest as a last...

Oil refinery workers from Ballsh and their supporters gathered outside the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure to demand wages they said had been unpaid for more than two years. Workers described...

After police officer killing of 25-year-old Klodian Rasha, hundreds gathered outside the Ministry of Interior with candles and banners demanding justice and the minister’s resignation. Protests...

A coalition of 16 Albanian and regional environmental organizations challenged government plans for an international airport inside the Vjosa–Narta protected landscape. They argued the decision lacked...

Women gathered in Tirana on International Women’s Day with messages linking patriarchy, unpaid domestic labor and the unequal burdens intensified by the pandemic. Organizers said the action also spoke...

The United Miners of Bulqiza trade union published a video appeal asking workers abroad to support their organizing. The union described how privatized mineral concessions and weak labor protections...

Residents demonstrated in Tirana and asked the court to set a hearing date on their challenge to the Seka hydropower plant. They argued that construction threatened the protected ecosystem and their...