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Around 140 citizens of the city of Zagreb in the Republic of Croatia were recently arrested during a peaceful demonstration in Varsavska Street. Arrests and other police interventions have been happening continuously ever since the protests started. International and local civil society organizations have reacted to these violations of the right to freedom of assembly.

on peace-building experience in ex-Yu countries

for highschool students

The application for the 2011 session of the annual Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia University is now available.

Violence Against Minorities

Facts about all victims of war 1991-2001

Center for Peace Studies – CMS took part in drafting the Act on Elimination of Discrimination in the Republic of Croatia – ZDS. Legal experts in the Republic of Croatia, evaluated the law itself as passable, but had remarks to make on the shortcomings of certain parts and provisions of the Act. Their remarks are mostly on the lack of a certain hierarchy between discriminatory basis.

According to the recent research of National Institute for Public Health of Republic of Croatia (HZJZ), it is important to increase the number of employed women with disabilities, enable them to undergo re-training and additional education, and to provide them with social support “through self-help groups’’ and creative work.

The role of civil society in offering protection and services to refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons.