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Besar Likmeta

Besar Likmeta is an editor for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, based in Tirana, and a winner of the 2009 CEI-SEEMO Award for Investigative Journalism.

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Sex-Selective Abortion Trending in Albania

By Besar Likmeta ● Uncategorized ● January 25, 2013

Albanian officials deny any evidence of widespread sex-selective abortion. But on the heels of a critical U.N. report the government is ordering a task force to consider a problem that researchers say is rooted in a cultural bias for male heirs.