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Lecture: Availability rights
Availability as basic human right of persons with disabilities
Architecture Advisory Council: Life without barriers
The Architecture Advisory Council in the Republic of Croatia is envisioned as a bureau where persons with disabilities and other interested citizens can get free professional advice regarding architectonic adjustments to people with disabilities. The Advisory Council provides professional help, not only to individuals and professioal institutions, but to other organizations that work on the disability issue as well.
Judicial harassment of war crimes reporter continues
Reporters Without Borders condemns the charge that was brought yesterday at the behest at interior minister Tomislav Karamarko against a journalist who writes about war crimes in the 1990s. Zeljko Peratovic is accused of “disseminating information likely to upset the population” under article 322/1 KZA of the criminal code, which carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison as well as a possible fine.
First case on domestic violence solved positively
The first case on domestic violence that B.a.B.e. has sent to the European Court for Human Rights has been solved positively. The Republic of Croatia is obliged to pay 40 000 Euros to the family, right, of the deceased, and 1 300 Euros of allowance for the expenses of the request and correspondence with the European court.
Amnesty International: Briefing on Republic of Croatia
During its meeting between 16 March and 3 April 2009, the Human Rights Committee is scheduled to discuss its future examination of the second periodic report of the government of the Republic of Croatia on measures undertaken to give effect to the rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).