Valdete Idrizi

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Valdete Idrizi
International Women of Courage winner, Valdete Idrizi, with Secretary Rice, March 10, 2008. (U.S. State Department photo).jpg
Valdete Idrizi (left) with Secretary Condoleezza Rice, 2008
Born (1973-06-27) 27 June 1973 (age 52)
Kosovska Mitrovica, SFR Yugoslavia
Occupation Engineer
Years active2000s–present
Known for Women's rights activism
Political party Democratic Party of Kosovo
Awards 2008 International Women of Courage Award
2009 Soroptimist International Peace Award

Valdete Idrizi (born 27 June 1973) [1] is the executive director of the CiviKos platform (in 2017). [2] She was the executive director of the NGO Community-Building Mitrovica, which she founded, and which works for peace and builds community in the Mitrovica region in northern Kosovo. [3] [4] For six years prior to 2008, Community-Building Mitrovica was the only organization in Mitrovica which encouraged reconciliation and rebuilding of relationships between ethnic Albanians and Serbs. [5] Idrizi herself is an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo in North Mitrovica who lost her home in 1999 when the Serbs invaded. [3] [5] [4] In 2008 her home was still occupied by Serbs. [3] Community-Building Mitrovica has managed to arrange the return of some Serbs to their homes in Kosovo, for which Idrizi received death threats from Kosovar Albanian militants. [3]

Idrizi received a 2008 International Women of Courage Award and the 2009 Soroptimist International Peace Award. [5] [6] [4]

She was chosen as CiviKos Platform Executive Director in December 2011; CiviKos is an initiative of civil society organizations in Kosovo "aimed at creating an enabling environment for [the] cooperation of [the] formal civil society sector and the Government." [2]

References

  1. ↑ oralhistorykosovo.org
  2. 1 2 Archived 2018-07-02 at the Wayback Machine , Civikos, Retrieved 11 February 2017
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Kosovo's 'Woman of Courage' Bridges Ethnic Divide | WBUR & NPR". Archived from the original on 2016-08-25. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  4. 1 2 3 "Valdete Idrizi | WISE Muslim Women". Archived from the original on 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  5. 1 2 3 International Women of Courage Award Ceremony: 2008
  6. ↑ "Valdete Idrizi wins Award - Community Building Mitrovica". Archived from the original on 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
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