Life in Kosovo discusses about emergency situations
Tonight, Life in Kosovo will broadcast a debate on the emergency situations in our country.
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Every Thursday starting from 20:30, Radio Television Kosovo, RTK, broadcasts the TV debate show "Life in Kosovo", a joint production of BIRN and RTK.
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Matt Prodger, BBC
05 December 2006 "I myself owe something to the IWPR writers who last year produced a heartening story about Serbs and Kosovar Albanians working together at a brick factory near Kamenica".
"It was a fresh and original insight which challenged one of the main stereotypes of the region: that of intractable ethnic hostilities. As a result of their article, I filmed my own report on the same subject for BBC News and it was aired on BBC World TV in October 2004"
THE PROCESS OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS AND REAPPOINTMENTS OF JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS
The report on the process of judicial appointments and reappointments analysis the flow of this process, specifically focusing on the bright and dark sides that have marred the process to its final stages.
COURT MONITORING ANNUAL REPORT APRIL 2010 - FEBRUARY 2011
Court monitoring report is published as a result of a continuous monitoring of all municipal and districts courts of Kosovo. The findings of this report are based on the monitoring of 2,147 court hearings, by BIRN monitors.
THE PROCESS OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS
This report presents the results of part of BIRN's court monitoring project, specifically on the process for the appointment and reappointment of judges and prosecutors.
Follow the Paper Trail
\"Follow the Paper Trail\", a guide to document-based journalism in Kosovo, explains relevant laws, access to public documents, how to publish safely, where to find databases on investigative journalism, and how to locate documents online through various search engines.
Courts Monitoring Report 2010
A detailed analytical report about the work and administration of the courts in Prishtina, Peja, Prizren, Gjilan, Mitrovica, Ferizaj, Gjakova, Decan, Vushtrri, Poduleva, Lipjan, Klina and Istog. The report contains important information, collected by the network of monitors, placed in the major municipalities of Kosovo and aims to identify the key problems and issues that the justice system in Kosovo is facing.
REPORT: Monitoring the Courts 2009
Monitoring the work and administration of courts in Prishtina, Peja, Mitrovica, Gjilan, Ferizaj, Vushtrri and Skenderaj.
DIRECTLY ELECTED MAYOR SYSTEM IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE
The report on Directly Elected mayor System in Local Governance aims to provide a critical overview of the rationale and feasibility of the implementation of a municipal governance system that places the mayor as the central executive figure, during the third year of its application. The efficiency of this system was assessed based on the following pillars: the relationship between local government bodies, accountability of the municipal executive, respect for the law, the link between the mayor and the citizens, provision of public services (water supply and waste management, capital investments (in school and road projects)), level of transparency, public consultation and citizen participation in decision-making.
BIRN Report on Monitoring the Education System
Report on monitoring the elementary and high schools in Prishtina: Mitrovica, Ferizaj, Peja and Gjilan
Analytical report of the situation and the problems in the University of Prishtina
Report on Kosovo`s Healthcare System
Monitoring report on all primary, secondary and tertiary (University Clinical Center of Kosovo, UCCK) healthcare institutions in Pristina, Prizren, Peja, Mitrovica, Gjilan, Ferizaj, Gjakova, Klina, Decan, Istog and Vushtrri.
Situation and the Problems at the University of Prishtina
Analytical report of research into the standards and problems at the University of Prishtina. Ten years since the end of the war in Kosovo, the University of Prishtina (UP) continues to suffer from a variety of problems, resulting in persistently low quality courses being offered. For this reason, BIRN conducted research into the problems faced by UP students. The data gathered suggests that, out of the many issues reported, the most significant are: the non-implementation of contemporary teaching and assessment methods, the lack of practical work for students, the lack of appropriate academic literature, arbitrary assessments by
professors and generally poor relationships between students and their professors.
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"After the War: Life post-Yugoslavia" is now available!
Posted: 2010-08-09 22:19:00,
Yugoslavia Documentary Compilation Available From A Million Movies a Minute PORTLAND, Oregon – A Million Movies a Minute, an independent distributor specializing in short documentaries, has announced its inaugural release AFTER THE WAR: LIFE POST-YUGOSLAVIA. This 150-minute compilation includes films by 5 film-makers from the former Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Peru and the United States. These 9 films represent a broad spectrum of contemporary documentary film-making. The recent apprehension of Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic has brought the Bosnian war back into the international spotlight. But these films also depict universal experiences of war that have tragic resonance on the current world stage. Rather than a polemical examination of the governmental and military situations that caused the civil war, these films represent the human costs by providing a ground-level view of life in a country ravaged by war, cultural divisions, and its difficult road to reconciliation. • Corinne van Egeraat's Cowboys in Kosovo uses compassion and humor to show how four men who grew up together feel about the "cowboy games" they played as children after living through war. • Jasmila Zbanic's (winner of the 2006 Golden Bear top prize at Berlin Film Festival) Images from the Corner and Red Rubber Boots examines the long-lasting impact of loss and exploitive media coverage. • Roberto Forns-Broggi's House of Wisdom, drawing strong influence from the French new wave travelogue films, depicts the loss of cultural Sarajevo's cultural artifacts after immense looting. • Zelimir Gvardiol's Ravens is the story of a family deeply divided over a medal of bravery posthumously awarded to their son who died in Milosevic's army; It's Only Mine uncovers the struggle middle class Serbs are grappling with to regain their property that was seized by the Communist police; I Don't Know Where, Or When, Or How illustrates how the shortages of food and resources during wartime first impact the vulnerable elderly population; Father, Son, Holy Ghost Their films have screened at hundreds of festivals and been honored with numerous prestigious awards, full list available at: http://millionmoviesaminute.com/YugoFests.html A Million Movies a Minute was founded on the belief that short documentaries have the agility and brevity to tell powerful, intimate stories that speak to an increasingly fast-paced, media-hungry audience. Other releases from A Million Movie a Minute include Animating Reality, a collection of animated documentaries on a variety of subjects and themes and Radical Act, a cultural history of the contribution of female artists to the 1990s indie rock music scene. Available now on DVD: http://www.buyolympia.com/q/Item=afterthewar And for rent or sale on Amazon VOD: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=after+the+war+life+post+yugoslavia&x=0&y=0 Trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdggm-cw39c For press requests contact: press@millionmoviesaminute.com