{"id":72972,"date":"2025-02-05T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=72972"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:20:51","slug":"journey-to-the-nobel-prize-rushiti-talks-about-the-long-battle-of-victims-of-sexual-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/journey-to-the-nobel-prize-rushiti-talks-about-the-long-battle-of-victims-of-sexual-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the Nobel Prize, Rushiti talks about the long battle of victims of sexual violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The director of the Kosovo Center for the Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors (KCRT), Feride Rushiti, and this organization were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize a few days ago. For more than two decades, this center has treated many women and men who were sexually abused during the 1998-1999 war. On Wednesday, Rushiti spoke in a public discussion about her journey and the fight for justice for survivors of sexual violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She first met sexually abused women and girls in March 1998 in Kukes. She was serving there as a doctor for Kosovars who were forcibly displaced by Serbian forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amidst emotions, she recounts her first conversation with a woman who was raped in the presence of her husband and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember the first meeting when I was summoned as a woman and as a doctor, to visit a woman in the Italian camp. There were dozens of international journalists standing next to that tent. When I entered that tent, I found a woman with her two children holding them tightly in her lap, and she continued with an emotionless rhetoric, she had a physiological numbness and said that \u2018I left the child for dead, the dogs ate it, I couldn\u2019t bury it, what happened to it\u2019. She asked these questions and I found myself challenged and didn\u2019t know what to do with her\u2026 I remembered to ask her what happened to her husband, because she was standing alone in that tent holding the children. And when I asked her \u2018what happened to the husband, where is the husband, she said, “Oh, sister, they took my husband, because the moment they wanted to rape me, he reacted and I don’t know what happened to him.” That moment was very embarrassing for me personally and I started crying,” said Rushiti.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In meetings with dozens of sexually abused women and men, Rushiti said that the survivors did not talk about the horror they experienced but about their urgent needs at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The director of the Kosovo Center for the Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors (KCRT), Feride Rushiti, and this organization were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize a few days ago. For more than two decades, this center has treated many women and men who were sexually abused during the 1998-1999 war. On Wednesday, Rushiti spoke in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":72973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[304,307,306,296],"tags":[1092,1441,1108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72974,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72972\/revisions\/72974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}