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Published 9 December 2016 Last updated 22 March 2024 +show all updates
Updated sections 1.4 and 6 in the note on human trafficking. Added an accessible version of the note on medical and healthcare provision.
Albania: Medical and healthcare provision, May 2023 information note has been added. This has been updated to include information on the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund and references to drugs lists published by the Ministry of Health and Social Care.
Added accessible version of the information on human trafficking.
Updated the country policy and information note on human trafficking.
Updated information on blood feuds published.
Added Report on fact-finding mission: Blood feuds, Albania
Updated information published covering: 'actors of protection', 'mental healthcare', 'domestic violence against women' and 'sexual orientation and gender identity and expression'.
Updated human trafficking guidance.
Information on Roma and Balkan Egyptians removed as no longer required.
Updated information on medical and healthcare provision published.
Accessible versions added of documents covering: trafficking, sexual orientation and gender identity, domestic abuse and violence against women, Roma and Balkan Egyptians, and actors of protection.
All documents replaced.
All Albania country policy and information notes have been removed for review.
Published new country policy and information note 'Medical and healthcare provision'. Added a HTML accessible version.
Information on 'actors of protection' added.
Replaced human trafficking CPIN with a new version.
New country policy and information note on Roma and Balkan Egyptians for October 2021 which replaces Country policy and information note: ethnic minority groups, Albania, May 2017.
Removed "CPIN background information, including actors of protection, and internal relocation document" document from July 2017
Updated country and information policy on human trafficking to the February 2021 version, replacing the June 2020 version.
Replaced report on people trafficking, Albania, March 2019 with new report on trafficking of women for sexual exploitation, Albania, June 2020.
Added 'Country policy and information note: mental healthcare, Albania, May 2020'.
