Victimology

Officials in Pristina have yet to publicly respond since the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague urged Kosovo to create a new reparation mechanism for war crimes victims in order to ensure "equal treatment between the suspects and accused".

Almost five years have passed, but for the victim, time has stood still, her story becoming an obstacle to her education, employment and personal relationships. She said she had tried to kill herself.

The human trafficking arm of Europe's top human rights body is expressing concern over Cyprus' failure to grant free legal aid and expertise to trafficking victims during criminal proceedings.

Several hundred rights activists protested in Tirana on Thursday against sexual violence, after the country was shocked this week when police said they had arrested several teenagers and a 65-year-old school guard for abusing a 15-year-old girl for about two years.

Two African lions rescued from war zones in Iraq and Syria are heading to a permanent home in South Africa, after resting in Jordan where they recuperated from physical and psychological trauma.

The Prime Ministry on Feb. 20 published a memorandum declaring 2018 to be the “year of the battle against child labor,” aiming to raise awareness of the globally and nationally wide-spread, systematic victimization of the children.

Montenegro will pay around 1.35 million euros in compensation to victims of war crimes committed on its territory in the 1990s as it continues efforts to satisfy EU accession requirements on justice.

The Turkish Justice Ministry has completed a draft law prepared to support survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, terrorism, murder, bodily harm and human trafficking as well as children, women, the elderly and disabled victims.

Only three verdicts in state-level war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina have ever ordered compensation payments to victims of sexual violence, but none of the victims has received any money yet.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out war reparations to the Greek state. Instead, she is in favor of joint projects through a “fund with the future”. The program will have an annual budget worth 1 million euros as a gesture of atonement for Nazi atrocities in Greece during World War II.