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CRCA / ECPAT Albania sues the Municipality of Tirana in Court!
For 2 years, a decision of the Municipal Council of Tirana violates the constitutional right to peaceful assembly and assembly for every citizen, group of citizens or NGO
Tirana, April 21, 2021 - CRCA / ECPAT Albania will face on April 29, 2021 in a lawsuit with the Municipality of Tirana. The Child Rights Centre in... -
Personal data of children in Albania at risk of falling into the hands of pedophiles!
CRCA / ECPAT Albania expresses its astonishment that data protection institutions have not acted to date to protect children
Tirana, April 6, 2021 - CRCA / ECPAT Albania, theFree Legal Office for Vulnerable Children and Youth and the National Platform ISIGURT.al, through... -
JUSTICE SERVED FOR THE 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL
CRCA/ECPAT Albania: We are extremely concerned on the situation that children and young people face while waiting justice for sexual crimes committed against them!
Tirana, April 02, 2021 - Finally, after 44 court sessions justice was served on the case of sexual violence of a 12-years old girl in the district of... -
URGENT INVESTIGATION NEEDED IN THE CASE OF TORTURE AND INHUMAN TREATMENT OF A MINOR IN KAMZA!
CRCA/ECPAT Albania:Torture against any human being is unacceptable and illegal, but when it is exercised against a child it shows that the Police Authority is far from respecting and protecting the rights of the child!
Tirana, March 31, 2021- National Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Juveniles in Conflict with the Law and CRCA / ECPAT Albania, through... -
Sexual Assault Against Boys Is a Crisis
It’s far more common than we think. Here’s why we don’t talk about it.
By Emma Brown Raising a boy sometimes feels like traveling in a foreign land. When I gave birth to my daughter, three years before my son was born, I... -
STOP EXPLOITING CHILDREN DURING THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN IN ALBANIA!
CRCA/ECPAT Albania: We will publicly denounce every candidate or political party that exploits children for electoral benefits!
Tirana, March 25, 2021 - Today the one-month electoral campaign for the parliamentary elections opened officially in Albania. CRCA/ECPAT Albania,... -
Can Albania establish the AMBER Alert?
Tirana, March 25, 2021 - The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) in cooperation with the National Centre for Missing... -
The Lanzarote Committee invites children to raise their voice against sexual violence in Albania
Tirana, March 23, 2021- The Chair of the Lanzarote Committee of the Council of Europe, established pursuant to the Convention on the Protection of...
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20th ANNIVERSARY OF CRCA ALBANIA
By March 1997 Albania was in total turmoil and people had taken to arms across the country in protest against the corruption, an authoritarian government and lack of a functioning state. Seven years after the people had overthrown the communist regime from power, the country was still far from living in a democratic state, where human rights of all are respected.
Children were among the most affected from the violence and unrest that followed. Media reports claim that more than 150 children were killed accidentally by bullets and other types of ammunitions. It is under such a background that a dedicated group of lawyers, doctors and journalists, with a extensive working experience on human rights, decided to come together to establish Children’s Human Rights Centre of Albania (CRCA). This year we commemorate our 20thanniversary as one of the leading human rights organisations in the country and the Western Balkans.
20 years is quite a short and long time in the history of CSO’s in the Balkans, where there has never been a well-established civil society. Such an oxymoron can explain the works of almost every organisation working for children, youth and human rights in Albania and Balkans. Lacking democratic values, a strong education system, political elites and geo-political realities made Albania a “perfect” country for political experiments, which still today continue to affect the rights and the welfare of our citizens.
Much has happened to our organisation during this period too. One of the largest achievements of our work and so many other CSO’s, colleagues and friends, public institutions and donors, has been the great advancement of children and youth rights, despite that the country still faces the same challenges that faced in 1997...