The first women's association in Albania was founded in 1909. Albanian women from the northern Gheg region resided within a conservative and patriarchal...

Union of Albanian Women was an important mass organization in socialist Albania, founded in 1943 and dissolved in 1992. As with other mass organizations...

of victims being women forced into prostitution. Albania is a country of origin and country of transit for persons, primarily women and children, trafficked...

(in Albanian: burrnesha) are people who are assigned female at birth and who take a vow of chastity and live as men in patriarchal northern Albanian society...

Albania (/ælˈbeɪniə, ɔːl-/ a(w)l-BAY-nee-ə; Albanian: Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë), is...

Abortion in Albania was fully legalized on December 7, 1995. Abortion can be provided on demand until the twelfth week of pregnancy. Women must undergo...

The Albania women's national football team (Albanian: Kombëtarja e futbollit të femrave të Shqipërisë) represents the country of Albania in international...

arrived in Albania mainly during the Ottoman period when the majority of Albanians over time converted to Islam under Ottoman rule. Following the Albanian National...

as the Republic of Albania, was the communist state in Albania from 1946 to 1991. It succeeded the Democratic Government of Albania (1944–1946). During...

exploit domestic and foreign victims in Albania, and traffickers exploit victims from Albania abroad. Albanian women and children are subject to sex trafficking...