Pristine, Kosovo - During the week of October from 28-31, several workshops were targeting the creation of Task Force groups in four cities of Kosovo: Mitrovica, Peja, Prizren, Gjilan. Participants were sharing the Task Force experience in Pristine to other cities of Kosovo and promoting the "Capitalization Report – Psychosocial Intervention Review" in the frame of Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in Kosovo Project.

This institutional tool intends to function as a mechanism for managing cases exposed to delinquency, exploitation / trafficking through referral and coordination of cases. Through this approach these children will be prevented to be in conflict with the law, victims of trafficking and exploitation. In total 92 representatives from government institutions at local level participated: Center for Social Work, Community Police Unit for Violence in the Family, Kosovo Police Service, Probation Service, Municipal Directorate of Education, Municipal Directorate of Health and Social Welfare, UNICEF, Regional Office for Education, Psychologists from Schools and Tdh Team in Kosovo.

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Comment: "ReliefWeb" reports that the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) considered the document presented by the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on how the provisions of the International covenant on ESCRs are being implemented in Kosovo. The article provides a full account of the meeting. As part of the discussion, questions were raised regarding child labour, domestic violence, access to education of minority children in Kosovo.

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Pristine, Kosovo –  The Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Sports with the support of the Swiss foundation Terre des hommes and enterprises that trade products for children,  initiated for the first time a Kids Fair that is held on the 24 - 25 of October in the cultural centre-red hall-Pristine.

The aspiration of this Fair is for children participants to be able to socialize on an equal level, without considering ones nationality, language, social background, or religious views. The children participants of this Fair will be engaged in recreative activities (theater, music, games, etc), and children in need will benefit free products from these enterprises that trade the products for children in the frame of humanitarian character. This Fair is foreseen to be traditional fair, with the ambition to be held every year.

Pristine, Kosovo – UNICEF launched an awareness campaign for the wide public in preventing juvenile delinquency with the message Choose Your Future. A masked-ball program 'Choose Your Profession' was organized in cooperation with 'Kaon' agency and with the participation of Terre des hommes, where all together 200 children took part from 11 different elementary schools in the region of Pristina.

The aim of this program with the slogan 'Choose Your Profession' was to sensitize the children on the risk of juvenile delinquency, to raise their awareness on the importance of education, their rights and responsibilities.

Prishtina - Kosovo: The summer camps have just ended and 680  children participated in the activities organised by Tdh and its partners. The summer program took place in the capital city and also in Fushe Kosove, Prizren, Gjakove and Mitrovica. Apart from the recreational and psychosocial interests, these specific activities are organised every summer to entertain children in a safe and child friendly environment and to identify children at risk of various forms of exploitation.

Zana Daka, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist of Tdh in Kosovo recalls the nice moments and the words of the children: "I just remembered a child saying: 'Thanks God for the activities because I don't have to go out on the streets to beg.' And another one saying: 'I cant wait for school to begin so I will not have to go back on the streets...'

Zana continues "the children wrote also some poetry and short stories, you want to read them? I have translated one in English, it is called 'Little Ben'..."