The Kosovo Olympic Committee, through the Women and Sport Commission and in cooperation with UN Women and the UNKT (United Nations Kosovo Team), recently hosted a forum on the topic “Empowering girls and women to prevent abuse in sports”. NOC President Ismet Krasniqi and the UN Women Coordinator Arnhild Spence opened the forum, which took the form of a panel discussion.

 

Among the panellists were Daulina Osmani, Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Edi Gusia, Chief Executive Officer of the Agency for Gender Equality, and Ulpiana Emra, former basketball player, now a sports journalist and commentator.

The panellists and participants, most of whom were federation and club members, discussed the prevention of abuse in sports in Kosovo, gave recommendations and addressed the best ways to report cases.