ANNUAL REPORT 2018 No. 18
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ANNUAL REPORT 2018 No. 18 Prishtina, 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 ________________________________________________________________________ 1 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 ________________________________________________________________________ Table of contents Foreword by the Ombudsperson ....................................................................................... 10 Ombudsperson Institution ................................................................................................. 12 Mandate of the Ombudsperson Institution .................................................................... 12 Promotion of Human Rights ......................................................................................... 16 Access to the Ombudsperson Institution ....................................................................... 26 Human rights situation in the Republic of Kosovo ........................................................... 27 Legislative power .......................................................................................................... 27 Judicial system .............................................................................................................. 32 Executive power ............................................................................................................ 40 Privatisation Agency of Kosovo (PAK) .....................................................................41 Expropriations of immovable property of socially-owned enterprises ......................42 Conditioning vehicles registration ..............................................................................43 Suspension of activities of NGOs by the Department for the Registration of NGOs 44 Failure to fulfil 15 year criterion for benefiting the contributor pension ...................46 The pensioner's right to pension contributions, as well as the right to use other pensions applicable in Kosovo ...................................................................................47 The civil rights of Albanian citizens from Preshevo, Medvegja and Bujanoc ...........48 Matters related to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology ....................48 Independent Oversight Board for Civil Service in Kosovo ........................................51 Responsibility toward the living environment ............................................................52 Right of access to public documents ..........................................................................68 Rights of the child ............................................................................................................. 72 Current status of the rights of the child ......................................................................... 72 Legal framework and children‟s rights ......................................................................... 72 Children‟s right to education ......................................................................................... 73 Equality before the law ..................................................................................................... 82 The right to pension....................................................................................................... 96 Health and Social Protection ......................................................................................... 99 LGBTI community ...................................................................................................... 103 Gender equality ........................................................................................................... 105 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 ________________________________________________________________________ The right to property and inheritance .......................................................................... 107 Domestic violence ....................................................................................................... 109 Minority Communities ................................................................................................ 112 Return and security ...................................................................................................113 Citizenship and civil registration ..............................................................................117 Property rights ..........................................................................................................120 Education ..................................................................................................................121 Use of language ........................................................................................................125 Freedom of religion in Kosovo .................................................................................128 Activities of the Department for Protection from Discrimination (DPD) ................... 130 National Preventive Mechanism against Torture (NPM) ............................................... 140 NPM‟s methodology and organization during 2018 ................................................... 141 NPM‟s methodology.................................................................................................141 NPM's composition ..................................................................................................142 Trainings for the NPM personnel .............................................................................143 NPM‟s activities .......................................................................................................143 International cooperation............................................................................................. 144 Fulfilment of the NPM's mandate during 2018 ........................................................... 144 Visits conducted .......................................................................................................144 Reports with recommendations published during 2018 ...........................................145 Cooperation of visited institutions with NPM............................................................. 146 Findings during visits and recommendations sent to competent authorities ............... 146 Police stations ...........................................................................................................146 Correctional and detention centres ...........................................................................155 Recommendations issued to the competent authorities after visits to correctional and detention centres .......................................................................................................174 Asylum Seekers Centre and Detention Centre for Foreigners .................................... 177 Mental Health Institutions ........................................................................................... 183 Forensic Psychiatric Institute of Kosovo .................................................................... 183 Psychiatric Clinic ......................................................................................................187 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 ________________________________________________________________________ Centre for Integration and Rehabilitation of the Chronic and Psychiatric Patients in Shtime .......................................................................................................................192 Social care institutions ................................................................................................ 196 Home for Elderly People without Family Care (HEPWFC) ....................................196 Special Institute in Shtime (SISH)............................................................................197 Home for Children with Mental Disability...............................................................199 Summary of Report with recommendations ................................................................... 202 Ex officio Reports ....................................................................................................... 202 Ex officio Reports for case no. 731/2017, regarding the decision of the Police Inspectorate of Kosovo, dated 29 December 2017, for annulment of the recruitment process for Inspector / Investigator, announced on 24 July 2017. ...........................202 Ex officio Report for case no. 853/2016, regarding the discriminatory criteria established by the University of Prishtina ................................................................205 Ex officio Report for case no. 355/2016, regarding the Civil rights of Albanians from Presheva, Medvegja and Bujanoc, displaced in the Republic of Kosovo ................212 Ex officio Report for case no. 412/2017, regarding the decision for payment of the State Matura Exam, dated 16.5.2017, with no. 2-1843. ...........................................215 Ex officio Report for Case no. 235/2018 regarding the category of citizens who worked before 1999 and did not benefit from the age contribution-payer pension, because they did not meet the eligibility criteria of 15 years of pension experience as a consequence of discriminatory dismissal from work. ...........................................216 Ex officio Report for case no. 214/2018 regarding the arrest and forcible removal of six Turkish citizens from the territory of Republic of Kosovo .................................219 Ex officio Report for case no. 358/2016 regarding the amending and supplementing of Article 4