WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY:
KOSOVO

UNIFEM WOMEN, WAR AND PEACE WEB PORTAL: KOSOVO

"But we did not give up. We raised our voice. We met with UN officials, wrote letters, went to meetings to present our ideas, knowledge and expertise, we talked to donors and built alliances with those international organizations in Kosova and abroad that genuinely saw and related to us as partners in the common efforts to advance women's cause in our country. This is part of an on-going multi-layered struggle that womenís groups in Kosova have been engaged in during the last four years, a struggle to be part of the decision-making process from day one, a struggle to get better organized and become more effective, a struggle to take the place we deserve in shaping our life and the future of our society."

Igo Rogova, Board Chair, Kosova Women's Network, April 2003

"Many people have acquired their PhDs studying us, but no one helps us […] We have no rights, and those who should help do not want to. No one who was not in Srebrenica can know what we have lived through -how difficult it was to watch people die of hunger, children going from house to house asking for bread, so exhausted that there was no light in their eyes. I had two beautiful sons and a husband; now I have nothing"

Anonymous
(Independent Experts' Assessment)