A field of skirts against violence

Dresses and skirts donated by Cherie Blair and Rita Ora were among 5,000 pegged to washing lines in a Kosovo stadium earlier this month in an art installation drawing attention to the stigma suffered by victims of wartime sexual violence. While there are no precise figures, non-governmental organisations say thousands of women suffered sexual violence during the 1998-99 Kosovo war. Many have kept silent about what Serbian forces did to them, while some of those who have spoken out have faced being ostracised by Kosovo’s conservative and mainly Muslim Albanian society.