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OSCE and Kosovo Coordinator Against Domestic Violence Organize Advocacy Meeting on Domestic Violence Shelters in Kosovo

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Organizations: OSCE , Office of Kosovo Coordinator against Domestic Violence
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Deputy Head of Mission, Mr. Killian Wahl, opened the discussion by emphasizing the need to provide safe and sustainable services for shelters for the protection of victims of domestic violence throughout Kosovo. The discussions addressed ways of ensuring funding; the realities of the challenges faced by the shelter providers including positive examples of municipal support provided to the shelters. As an outcome of the advocacy meeting Mr. Qelaj sent a Request to the Kosovo Prime Minister asking for urgent approval from the Government for emergency funds to be allocated from the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare to the shelters for victims of domestic violence during the first quarter of 2020. Read more at: http://bit.ly/2EO37pN