Igballe Rogova

Igballe Rogova, a veteran human rights activist who is the director of the Kosovo Women's Network, staged a symbolic solo protest outside the government building in Pristina on Tuesday, accusing deputy prime minister Driton Selmanaj of showing disrespect to the people who went missing during the Kosovo war.

Most women Kosovo have been sexually harassed at least once in their lives, according to a new survey published on Monday by the Kosova Women Network, KWN.

The published data suggest that 64.1 per cent of women were harassed last year compared with 32.5 per cent of men.

A survey conducted by the Kosovo Statistics Agency ASK and UNICEF suggests that almost half the women in Kosovo were willing to justify male violence towards women - sometimes for such trivial reasons as the wife burning her husband's dinner.

Just over 42 percent of Kosovo women, questioned about whether they would justify violence directed at them in certain situations, said "Yes".