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THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN CRCA/ECPAT ALBANIA AND THE NATIONAL POLICE, LEADS THE ARREST OF THE PEDOPHILE NETWORK
Tirana, May 30, 2020 - Due to several months of work and professional cooperation between CRCA / ECPAT Albania experts, ISIGURT.al and the State... -
CRCA: Mr. Prime Minister, urgently dismiss the General Director of Police
Mr. Veliu seriously violates 4 laws. Illegality by the police continues today!
Tirana, May 29, 2020 - Today in the Parliamentary Committee on Security, the General Director of State Police Ardi Veliu, has outlined the next... -
CRCA worried about the lack of actions of the Durrës Police to search for the 12-year-old!
Tirana, 26 May 2020 – CRCA/ECPAT Albania, through this statement expresses its concern over the significant lack of actions of the Durrës Police in... -
Why the National Police Authority does not implement Amber Alert for missing children in Albania?
The National Centre for Missing Children in Albania is seriously concerned about the lack of actions and work protocols in the State Police to protect missing children! Every 3 days a child is lost in Albania
Tirana, 25 May 2020 - Today, on the International Day of Missing Children, the National Center for Missing Children in Albania, a joint service of... -
CRCA / ECPAT Albania: Immediate and independent investigation of violence and brutal treatment of a minor by four State Police employees
Tirana, 16 May 2020 - CRCA / ECPAT Albania through this urgent statement, expresses its deep indignation at the violence and brutal treatment of a... -
EU OPENS ITS DOORS FOR ALBANIA - ARE WE READY?
Web forum on the challenges of Albanian youth towards the path of the European Union!
Tirana, 15 May 2020 - Few weeks ago Albania received the invitation to open the negotiations with the European Union. This decision, in addition to... -
PINK Embassy and CRCA/ECPAT Albania submit their proposals to the Parliament on the Law on Protection from Discrimination
Tirana, 15 May 2020 - The Pink Embassy and CRCA/ECPAT Albania submitted today to the Albanian Parliament their proposals for amendments to the Law on... -
CRCA forum discusses on "Protection of children from violence and sexual exploitation on the Internet"
Tirana, May 8, 2020 – Child and Youth Advocacy Centre (ACA) and the National Hotline for Safer Internet ISIGURT.al, of CRCA/ECPAT Albania, organized...
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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...