The appointment of the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein
The Secretary-General’s nomination of Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, currently the Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations in New York, for a four-year term as High Commissioner…
FRA presented 2013 Annual Report on Fundamental Rights in EU
FRA Report maps out the fundamental rights challenges and achievements that took place over the course of 2013. The highlights are put on surveys on violence and discrimination…
ILO World Social Security Report
The global financial and economic crisis has forcefully underlined the importance of social security as ahuman right, and as an economic and social necessity, as set out in the ILO…
In memoriam: Dejan Palić (1957. – 2014.)
We are deeply sorry to announce the sad news that our distinguished colleague Dejan Palić, Deputy Ombudsman from 2004 to 2013, passed away. Dejan Palić was born on…
Ombudswoman proposes better protection of persons with mental disorders
Based on received complaints and visits to psychiatric institutions, the need for amending and improving the existing Law on Protection for Persons with Mental Disorder was noticed and…
Ombudswoman submitted her Annual Report for 2013 to the Parliament, March 31st, 2014
Ombudswoman submitted the 2013 Annual Report to the Croatian Parliament which, for the first time, unified four reports on all institution’s mandates: protection and promotion of human rights…
Amsterdam University Students’ visit in relation to the impact of EU accession on the human rights situation in Croatia with emphasis on minority rights
On 24th March 2013 Deputy Ombudswoman Jagoda Novak received the students of the Amsterdam University, Department for European Studies, who work on the Country Report Studies of the Eastern…
World Day of Social Justice – Call for adoption of the higher standards of social rights
The UN General Assembly proclaimed 20th February as the World Day of Social Justice in November 2007. 192 member states supported efforts of the international community in poverty eradication,…
Ombudswoman Submits Report 2023 Annual Report to the Croatian Parliament
The Importance and Impact of Political Discourse in the Pre-Election Period
International Conference Marks End of the Project on the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law
Parliamentary Committee on Human and National Minority Rights Votes in Favor of the Ombudswoman’s 2022 Annual Report
World Homeless Day – Invisible, but also Forgotten?
Ombudswoman to Issue Special Report on the Human Rights of Older Persons