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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Life in Kosovo: “Travelling to Europe”
22 January 2009 This Thursday, Life in Kosovo broadcast the documentary film called “Travelling to Europe”.
The 33-minute documentary was a travel guide compiled by Kosovar students, all with high average grades, who had the chance to obtain Schengen visas and travel through EU countries for a month.
Anchored by BIRN journalist, Muhamet Hajrullahu, however, the show actually began with the report “Culture in Kosovo”, prepared by another BIRN journalist, Arif Muharremi.
The cultural highlight of this was the premiere of “Hold my hand,” a film produced in Kosovo about drugs and drug use in Kosovo schools. Based on a true story the film reflected the sad reality of the scale of drug abuse among youngsters.
In “Travelling to Europe,” BIRN journalist, Krenare Maloku, one of the 25 participants on this journey, shared her concerns about the limits that people from Southeast Europe face when it comes to travelling through the Western part of the continent.
Benjamin Van Parys, Master in international relations from Belgium, told Krenare he did not feel comfortable travelling when he learned of the obstacles that people from the Balkans had to overcome in order to travel.
“I almost felt guilty when I travelled to the Balkans because it was so easy for me to travel anywhere I wanted and people in the Balkans told me how difficult it was for them to travel to my The documentary film showed shots of the beautiful scenery encountered by the travelers and some of the more influential buildings visited by
the students.
It ended with the last train to Vienna and then the flight back to Prishtina, together with
Krenare Maloku’s parting words: “After place after place, we came to the end of ourjourney.
We are returning back with many photographs, memories and experiences.
From the global point of view, this was the week when the US inaugurated Barack Obama as the first ever mixed-race president.
With this historic event in mind, BIRN broadcast a TV report on a member of the Roma minority in Kosovo who has felt inspired by Obama’s example to run for the post of President of Kosovo in the next presidential elections.
BIRN also broadcast the municipal debate “Jeta in Mitrovica,” in which the moderator, Jeta Xharra, confronted Bajram Rexhepi, head of the Mitrovica municipality.
Life in Kosovo is a co-production between Kosovo Public Television, RTK and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN. It is broadcast every Thursday, starting at 20:20.
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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