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As a way for the government of Kosovo to be more equipped to detect discrimination and end hate speech for good, UNMIK, UN Human Rights, and the Council of Europe (CoE), in collaboration with the Office for Good Governance, Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Non-Discrimination within the Office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo, created a two-phase project that has been training municipal officials and municipalities in Kosovo to do just that.

The project entitled “Promoting human rights and non-discrimination principles at the local level” has so far trained and strengthened the data collection, monitoring, and reporting skills of 97 anti-discrimination officers from 27 municipalities across all 5 regions of Kosovo to increase reporting to central institutions. It focuses on strengthening the reporting lines and interactions between municipal anti-discrimination officers and central institutions, which has fostered the establishment of a more integrated human rights architecture in Kosovo.

“Strengthening the monitoring and reporting of discrimination is key and supports the effective implementation of the existing Law on the Protection from Discrimination,” said Jerome Bouyjou, the Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Chief of the UNMIK Human Rights Office.