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The Council of Europe’s Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) has published in the beginning of September, the report on its 3rd periodic visit to Republic of Croatia, in 2007, together with the authorities’response. These documents have been made public at the request of the Croatian Government.

The processes in which refugees are returned to Republic of Croatia improved during the past five years, but there are still serious shortcomings in need of government attention. This article summarizes the findings of the draft ECRE (European Council for Refugees and Exiles) National Report for Republic of Croatia, compiled by the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. (06-SEP-07)
 

On Sunday, July 15 Antun Gudelj was extradited to Republic of Croatia after five years of hiding in Australia. Gudelj was convicted for twenty years of imprisonment in 1994, but the verdict was passed in absentia since he fled the country immediately after the crime. He was accused of a triple murder and an attempted murder near Osijek in 1991. (16-JUL-07)
 

The Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights organized 15th in a row School of Human  Rights for Youth. The School was organized with the long term financial support from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and Heinrich Boell Foundation.  (07-JULY-07)
 

The Balkan Human Rights Network (BHRN) is organising the seventh Human Rights School for Future Decision Makers in Dubrovnik (Croatia), from 27 May until 10 June 2007. The School will gather 27 young leaders from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Republic of Croatia, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. (22-MAY-07)
 

The Helsinki Committees from Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Republic of Croatia, FYR Macedonia and Montenegro will organize traveling regional school of human rights for youth, first of that kind in the region. Starting on Friday, 18 May, the one-week school will invite more than 20 activists of the Helsinki Youth Groups to visit the places most affected by recent wars in the region. (14-MAY-07)
 

After six years of continuos presidency of Zarko Puhovski, the Croatian Helsinki Commitee for Human Rights now has a new president. On plenary session held on Friday, 11th May, Danijel Ivin, one of the founders of the organisation became the new president of the Croatian Helsinki Commitee for Human Rights.(14-MAY-07) 
  

Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and Women´s Group B.a.B.e. will monitor situation in prisons in the Republic of Croatia. The aim of the project is to improve the overall situation regarding the respect of fundamental rigths of prisoners, and the conditions in which they serve their sentences. The realization of the year-long project, funded by the Open Society Institute, will start in the coming period. (18-APR-07)
 

B.a.B.e. are about to open the first shelter in Vukovarsko-srijemska County for women and children, victims of domestic violence. After a year of preparatory activities within the years long programme LEGALINE and a project aiming to provide legal counselling and psychological support, B.a.B.e. announced that the shelter will be opened in a couple of months. (07-MAR-07).