Aid for Women in Kosovo

The following is a list of women's organizations aiding women in Kosovo compiled by Kristina Mihalec at B.a.B.e.

 

Albanian Red Cross
Tel: +355 38 20 24 030
Distributing humanitarian aid

Albanian Woman Federation
Email:
[email protected]
Established a Monitoring Unit for the Violation of Human Rights in Kosova (MUVHR).

Albanian Women Federation
Tel: +355 42 725 92

AMI - Assistencia Medica International- Macedonia
Tel: +389 91 230-477

Associazione Donna Pisa
Casa della donna
Via Galli Tasei 8
56100 PISA - Italy
Tel./Fax: +39 501 550 627
Email:
[email protected]
Contact: Cristina Galasso

Autonomous Women's Center Against Sexual Violence
Tirsova 5a, Beograd, Serbia
Tel: 381.11.645.328
Fax: 381.11.687.190
Email:
[email protected]

Balkan Community Initiatives Fund
c/o Barbauld Road
N16 OSD London
Tel.: 0171-249-7337
Email:
[email protected]
It will raise fund and use these to provide small grants to local groups who are working for tolerance and the peaceful resolution of conflict, the promotion of human rights and civil rights, and the promotion of democracy, and/or providing humanitarian support at local level.

Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
99 Bishop Richard Allen Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Tel.: +1 (617) 492-7273
Fax: +1 (617) 492-8306
A team of counselors training volunteers on how to aid Kosovo rape survivors.

Center for Women Victims of War
Radnicki dol 20
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel/Fax: +385 1 48 23 258
Tel/Fax: +385 1 48 23 188
Email:
[email protected]

Centre for Protection of Women & Children
Rr. Robert Gajdiku 62
38000 Pristina, Kosova -Yugoslavia
Tel/Fax: +385 38 21 923
Email:
[email protected]

Christlicher Friedensdient
Falkenhoeheweg 8
CH 3001, Bern
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 +31 301 60 06
Fax: +41 +31 302 87 34
Contact: Barbara Lutz
Email:
[email protected]

Claudie Lesselier
Women's Center - Paris
Email:
[email protected]
Various actions and writing alerts about the situation of women in Kosovo.

CRS in Albania
Tel/Fax: +355 42 34099
Tel/Fax: +355 42 40144
Distributing humanitarian aid.

Dallas Kosova Refugee Committee
Coordinator, Anne Marie Weiss-Armush
Tel.: +1 (972) 458 7007
Email:
[email protected]

Family Planing Association
Muhamet Gjollesha Str.
Tirana, Albania
Tel./Fax: +355 42 242 69

Gabrielle Engh
Email:
[email protected]
Working with Women in Black, New York
HAESE
Partizanski odredi 37/1/24
Skopje 91000, Macedonia
tel./fax: 389-91/ 224 823
Email:
[email protected]
Legal help for women's human rights.

Hope for Kosovo
50 Vale Road
London
Contact: Hamide Latifi
Serves as a bridge between Kosovan refugees in Britain, local communities and institutions, and organizations in Kosova, Albania and Macedonia.

Independent Forum of Albanian Woman
Myslym Shyri Str.71
Tirana, Albania
Tel.: +355 42 272 68, 283 09
Fax: +355 42 283 09

Kosovo Women's Fund
The STAR Network of World Learning
Contact: Lael Stegall in Washington
Tel.: +202-408-5420, ext. 136
Email:
[email protected]
Jill Benderly in Zagreb
Email:
[email protected]
www.neww.org/kosovawomenfund.htm
The Fund will give encouragement and financial support to three groups now in Macedonia who have the ability to reach a significant number of women and their families.

Kvinna till Kvinna
Tjärhovsgatan 9
S-116 21 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel.: +46-8-702 98 20
Fax: +46-8-643 23 60
Email:
[email protected]
www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se/activity/kvinnatk.htm
Has been organizing various solidarity projects in Bosnia during the war(s) and were active in Kosova the year before the crisis started there.

Laurie MacDonald Brumberg
Email:
[email protected]
Exploring options for extending Women for Women's help to Kosovar Women, along the lines of sponsorship/training and microcredit programs to Bosnia, Croatia, and Rwanda.

League of Albania Women
str.117, No.2
91220 Tetova, Macedonia
Tel: +389 94 27461
Fax: +389 94 23248

League of Albanian Women of Macedonia
Djane Kreshova Ul. 101 No. 6
91220 Tetovo, Macedonia
Tel.: +389 94 32666

Luisa Morganti
Women in Black
Email:
[email protected]
Radical anti-militantarist from Rome

Macedonian Caritas
Petar Poparsov 47
91000 Skopje, Macedonia
Tel.: +389 91 220-622

Madaline Rees
Email:
[email protected]

MADRE
Email:
[email protected]
Provides emergency relief, health care & human rights advocacy to communities in crisis.

Medica mondiale e.V
65 Waisenhausgasse
D-50676 Koln
Germany
Tel: 00 49 221 931 8980 (Fax: 8981)
Email:
[email protected]
Medica Kosovo "Women to Women" is looking for funders and support "support by women for women traumatized by rape and other acts of terror in the nationalist aggression in Kosovo."
British Contact:
P.O. Box 9560
London, NW5 2WF
Tel: +44 171 482 5670
Contact: Cynthia Cockburn
Email:
[email protected]

Medica Zenica
Pionirska 10
Zenica 72000, BiH
Tel/Fax: +387 72 414 685
Working with refugee women from Kosovo, and working against violence towards women.

MOTRAT QIRIAZI
Zef Lush Marku 17
38000 Pristina, Kosovo-Yugoslavia
Tel.: +381 38 46 148
Email:
[email protected]
Society for education of women in Prishtina, Kosova.

Network of East West Women
1601 Connecticut Ave., NW#603
Washington, D.C. 20009 USA
Tel: +1 (202) 265-3585
Fax: +1 (202) 265-3508
Email:
[email protected]
www.neww.org

Psychologists for Social Responsibility
2607 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008, USA
Tel.: +1 (202) 745-7084
Fax: +1 (202) 745-0051
Contact: Anne Anderson
Email:
[email protected]
Psychologists for Social Responsibility has a "War Trauma and Recovery" brochure that you may find useful in your work. It is available in Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian (cyrillic alphabet), and Albanian.

UMAM
Bul."Jane Sandanski" 35 - V/23
Skopje 91000, Macedonia
Tel: +389 91/ 458 451, 114 849
Fax: +389 91/ 117 586, 235 029
Email:
[email protected]
Women in media research group.

UNHCR in Albania
Tel/Fax: +355 42/ 28474
Tel/Fax: +355 42/ 28492
Distributing humanitarian aid.

Urgent Action Fund
PO Box 1138
Fairfax, CA 94978-1138, USA
Tel: (415) 460-0571
Fax: (415) 460-6667
Contact: Julie Shaw
Email:
[email protected]
Provides immediate financial support for unanticipated and time urgent opportunities to advance the human rights of women within the context of the Beijing Platform for Action.

WAI - Women Aid International
Rr. Mihal Grameo 55
Tirana, Albania
Tel: +355 42 276 79 / 305 60
Mobile: 038 20 254 57
Email:
[email protected]

WiD - Women in Development
Tirana, Albania
Tirana, Albania
Tel: +355 42 639 08 / 277 47
Mobile: 038 20 278 99

Women in Black Belgium (Flemish)
H. Corbeelplein 4/2
3012 Wilsele-Leuven, Belgium
Tel: +32 16 20 13 25
Contact: Lieve Snellings
Email:
[email protected]
wib.matriz.net/jun99/wib003jun99.html#top
www.seniorweb.nl/photonet/
www.gms.lu/eye/index.html

Women in Black Belgrad
Jug Bogdanova 18/5
11000 Belgrad, Yugoslavia
Tel: + 381 11 623 225
Email:
[email protected]

Women in Black Brussels
Marie Franciose
11000 Belgrad, Yugoslavia
Email:
[email protected]

Women in Black Geneva
Rinna Nissim
Email:
[email protected]

Women in Black London
Jane Lewis
Email:
[email protected]

Women in Black Spain
Yolanda Rouiller
Email:
[email protected]

Women's Center Tirana
Rr. "Myslim Shri" P.54, Shk. 1, Ap.3
P.O. Box 2418
Tirana, Albania
Tel/Fax: +355 42 23693
Email:
[email protected]
Email:
[email protected]
Emergency help for Kovova women, and working on a new Family Law project.

Women's Aid to former Yugoslavia
20 Tennyson Road
Portswood
Southampton S017 2GW, England
Tel: +1703 551094
Fax: +1703 554434
Email:
[email protected]
Currently fund-raising for ex-Pristina women's groups currently working in Macedonia.

Zene Zenema (Women to Women)
Hamdije Cemerlica 25
Sarajevo 71000, BiH
Tel: 387-71/ 524 353
Email:
[email protected]
www.embassy.org/wmn4wmn/
Focus on violence against women and refugees.

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