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“Equality bodies can provide a significant contribution to our efforts to achieve full equality. However, for them to be able to realize their full potential and provide effective…

More than a year and a half after devastating earthquakes struck Croatia’s capital Zagreb and its surrounding areas, and almost a year after the Sisak-Moslavina County experienced the…

Numerous online hate messages and threats targeting reporter Danka Derifaj have made it clear once again that we must invest additional efforts to raise public awareness of the…

The humanitarian and human rights crisis in Afghanistan is causing grave concern across the world, especially the life-threatening situation many women and children are in, as well as…

Following the Ombudswoman’s recommendation, a company changed the provisions of its employment policy that had placed older candidates in a less favorable position solely on account of their…

Some of the vehicles travelling Croatian roads have license plates with the numbers and letters printed in green. This practice is set to be changed, so as to…

At its plenary session held on 15 July 2021 the Croatian Parliament appointed Ms. Dijana Kesonja, Ms. Tatjana Vlašić and Mr. Saša Rajić as the new Deputy Ombudspersons…

The current pandemic has affected our lives in unprecedented ways, claimed more than 8,200 lives nationally and almost 4 million worldwide and encroached on a wide range of…

Dear participants, dear organizers, dear distinguished speakers, I’m speaking on behalf of Equinet, the European network of equality bodies, representing 49 equality bodies in 36 European countries. In…

On the occasion of the World Elder Abuse Day marked annually on 15 June the UN points to the fact that in many countries of the world the…