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By signing the Contract on temporary usage of two buildings in the street Selska in Zagreb, for the needs of the association Human Rights House Zagreb (HRH Zagreb), Mayor of the city of Zagreb, Milan Bandic and President of the Board of HRH Zagreb, Sanja Sarnavka, have marked the beginning of activities regarding the elaboration of the building envisioned for HRH Zagreb usage.

The president of the APEO and of the Croatian Union of Physically Disabled Persons Association (HSUTI), Mirjana Dobranovic and her associates, participated last week in Zagreb in a presentation of the “Catalogue of vacancies for persons with disabilities”. Catalogue offers the database of vacancies for persons with disabilities and set of how-tos for employers regarding the employment of the adequate person with disability for an unoccupied position.

Documenta, Civic Committee for Human Rights (GOLJP) and Centre for Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights Osijek (CPNHR), have sent an open letter to Croatian Parliament urging it to issue an apology to the public, and particularly to the families of the victims of the war crime against civilians in Osijek, after belated decision on May 11th of the Credentials and Privileges Commission on detention of the convict Branimir Glavas, right.

The conference “The Role of Youth in Peace Building Process” was organized in Donja Stubica, in the end of March this year. As a result of the conference, participants have made a declaration on the role of youth in peace building processes, which will be the basis of advocating for institutional and legal changes on national and European level.

In relation to the forthcoming local elections in the Republic of Croatia, Centre for Peace Studies – Zagreb, CMS, wants to focus attention on cases of threats and violence towards activists on the local level, for their engagement and public action on local subjects and issues. For that purpose, CMS has developed a questionnaire to archive and track cases of violence and threats against human rights activists in the Republic of Croatia.

Non-governmental organizations Center for Peace Studies (CMS) and Regional Address of Non-violent Acting (RAND) express their full support to students from Zagreb and Zadar in their intention to point out the social injustice regarding education in the Republic of Croatia, by using non-violent methods.

Documenta, Civic Committee for Human Rights (GOLJP) and Center for Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights Osijek, held a round table late last month in Zagreb, on topic Prosecutions of war crimes in the Republic of Croatia. These organizations also published a report “Monitoring war crimes trials” for year 2008.

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Last week in Zagreb, activists of the Center for Peace Studies (CMS) peacefully demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic of Croatia against the inertness and intransparency of the government institutions responsible for the asylum issues in the Republic of Croatia.