Yearly Archives: 2013

Child labor continues to be of great concern for Albania. In spite of the fact that for many years it has been a topic of discussion within central structures of the Albanian government, child labor has not yet decreased. I visited Tirana during the summer of 2013. I had the privilege to meet child protection…

In the last years, the wider social, economic and political changes have greatly affected the lives of children, while many families from the Roma population face particular disadvantages, live in slum housing without sanitation facilities or clean water. At the age of six or seven when children have to start school, poorer children will often…