The Ombudsperson Qelaj participated in the conference “Institutional Responsibility for Human Rights”
06/12/2021
Pristina, 6th of December 2021 – The Ombudsperson, Mr. Naim Qelaj participated on Monday in the conference “Institutional Responsibility for Human Rights” organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, YIHR.
Mr. Qelaj said that we all hear that Kosovo has a good legal infrastructure but there is stagnation in the implementation of many laws and consequently the state is failing because it is not providing adequate protection for victims.
Mr. Qelaj said that they have handled some cases of violence that were based on gender, whilst some of them have ended in fatality, and the investigation of these cases shows that some links in the institutional chain have failed to provide adequate protection for victims.
“We must understand once and for all that when we fail to fulfill our responsibilities, no matter from which position we come, we are guilty of what happened,” said Ombudsperson.