Content_paragraphs:  During the reporting period, the Kosovo government commission responsible 
  
  for the verification and recognition of the status of survivors of conflict -related sexual 
  
  violence received 143 applications, bringing the total number of applications received 
  
  since its establishment in 2018 to 1,226. To date, 785 applicants (758 women and 
  
  27 men) have been granted survivor status. Challenges persist in terms of assessing 
  
  and evaluating applications owing to the sensitivity and complexity of cases. On 
  
  12 November, the Ombudsperson Institution of Kosovo launched an investigation 
  
  into the assessment and evaluation process upon receiving complaints from two 
  
  individuals whose applications for survivor status had been rejected by the 
  
  commission. On 6 March, the Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo filed an 
  
  indictment against a former member of the Serbian reserve police forces for crimes 
  
  allegedly committed against the Kosovo Albanian civilian population in May 1999, 
  
  including conflict-related crimes of sexual violence. This is the first indictment filed 
  
  by a local prosecution office on conflict-related sexual violence as a war crime since 
  
  the end of the EULEX executive mandate in 2018.