Homeless in their own homes
Women are fighting for their right to property, inside and outside of the house.
|2020.12.10
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“He would say ‘I am the man of this house, you are my servants.’ He used this type of reasoning,"
“I left the apartment only with the clothes I was wearing and my son,”
“I went to that village only once after I got married [again], and I passed by the house. My whole body shuddered,”
Fatime says“The living room for example has two couches — one of them is where the husband lies down, the chair is where the husband seats guests and the other couch is for children. Women remain on their feet, in the kitchen,"
Demolli saysOut of 240,000 residential buildings in Kosovo, 7,400 are under the ownership of women.
“I won’t accept leaving, that house is mine — it’s mine because it’s ours, it’s mine because my children were raised there,”
Luljeta saysWomen's demands for justice often face prejudice or stigmatization from relatives and society.
Halim Kafexholli
Halim Kafexholli finished his bachelor's studies in journalism at the University of Prishtina. He was a beneficiary of the first cycle of the Human Rights Journalism Scholarship, as well as participating in the K2.0 mentoring program. Halimi worked at the magazine Prishtina Insight, part of the BIRN Kosovo organization. He is also a recipient of the Human Rights Journalism Scholarship program (2018 and 2020 cycle). He currently works as a journalist for the publication Nacionale.
This story was originally written in Albanian.