This rapid assessment examines how the impacts of COVID-19 are threatening women’s ability to access justice. The assessment reflects challenges faced by women and girls of diverse backgrounds and socio-economic groups, including those experiencing overlapping disadvantages and those facing amplified challenges in humanitarian settings. Cross-regional and local experiences are highlighted, and quantitative data is utilized where available.

This UN Women in Kosovo brochure is a guide to the legal aid system and provides women in Kosovo with information on property rights; the right to inheritance; property in marriage or non registered marriage; the legal aid system; and on accessing laws. The brochure explains procedural safeguards so women can identify the best way to gain their property rights, while emphasizing how this enables them to be a driving force in the law’s implementation.