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On January 1st 2009, the Law on Suppression of Discrimination was officially adopted in the Republic of Croatia. The new law includes wide protection from discrimination. It defines precisely what consitutes discriminatory behaviour and determines the Ombudsman as the body in charge of suppression of discrimination.

Croatia’s Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has described Slovenia’s move to veto new talks for Zagreb to join the European Union as an action “without precedent.”

A Croat survivor of a 1991 mass murder testified Monday that Serb fighters beat and tortured civilians before forcing them into a mine field, where they died.

The remains of 160 Serbs from Banija, Kordun and Lika were discovered at the site, 40 of them women. They were killed in August 1995 in a Croatian military attack on a UN protected zone, known as Sector North.

EU states have rejected a Commission recommendation to set an end-2009 target date for completing Croatia’s accession talks. These remain at an early stage and thus the proposed target was ambitious. Yet the refusal to adopt it underlines the raft of challenges still facing Croatia—and not all of them are in Croatia’s power to solve.

A first indictee’s Defence witness says that in 1993 Vojno was “behind the zone of responsibility” of the First HVO Battalion.

The Osijek County Court has sentenced Josip Budimcic to 15 years in prison for war crimes committed in 1991.

Serbia will respond to Croatia’s genocide suit at the International Court of Justice by suing its former foe for war crimes, the foreign minister said.

The UN’s highest court will hear a genocide claim lodged against Serbia by neighboring Republic of Croatia for alleged ethnic cleansing committed during the Croatian war of the early 1990s, judges ruled Tuesday.