Hiljmnijeta Apuk

Hiljmnijeta Apuk (born 1956) is a Kosovar campaigner for the rights of people of short stature. In 2013, she was a recipient of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.

Biography Hiljmnijeta Apuk was born in 1956 in the city of Mitrovica, Kosovo, in what was then Yugoslavia. Her family is Bosniak. Apuk was born with disproportionately low growth.

Apuk has been an activist for the rights of people with disabilities, particularly those with muscular dystrophy and dwarfism, since the 1980s. She is the founding director of the non-governmental organization Little People of Kosovo. The organization was founded after the end of the Kosovo War in 1999, inspired by the U.S. organization Little People of America.

In 2013, she received the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for her activist work.