Croatia

02.07.2008 The Organizing Committee of Zagreb Pride 2008 condemned the attacks on gay activists Kristijan Grđana and Sanja Juras and three participants who came to the Pride from Kosovo, expressing their full solidarity and support for the victims.

01.07.2008 On the occasion of the sanctions of Croatian Football Association (HNS) because of the racist and xenophobic incidents involving some Croatian fans during the recently completed European Championship, the Centre for Peace Studies (CMS) said that HNS should do more, since it has the power and responsibility for such an action.

25.06.2008 A group of gay internet users noted that the Croatian internet space lacks a common starting point for homosexual men and women, bisexual, trans-gender and queer persons to get information and to get active, so they decided to launch a new internet portal to mark the Pride Week in Zagreb.

23.06.2008 Zelena Akcija (Green Action) environmental organization reacted to the announced cooperation of Cardinal Bozanić and Mayor Milan Bandic, on five different projects. Zelena Akcija focused on two of the projects – plans to build 2,500 apartments in developments in Strug on Žitnjak and the proposed Museum of Sacral Art in Nova Vesa.

23.06.2008 Branko Lukovac, Ambassador of Montenegro to Croatia and the State Secretary of Higher Education of Croatia Radovan Fuks signed the Memorandum of Cooperation which covers, among other issues, the cooperation of the two countries in the field of doctoral studies.

11.06.2008 The Documenta centre demands further investigation on events that took place during the Medacki Dzep offensive in the Homeland War in Croatia, noting that the completed trial at the District Court in Zagreb is an important, yet not sufficient step forward to justice.

09.06.2008 GONG joined the demands of Croatian journalists for the state to take more decisive steps in the fight with violent crime and corruption and to discover and apprehend those who ordered and perpetrated the attack on Dusan Miljus and all other attacks on public personalities over the past several months.

06.06.2008 The Zelena akcija (Green Action) environmental associations comments that the Government of Croatia is increasingly inclined to support the estimates of Croatian Power Company HEP and the energy lobby that Croatia needs to build a nuclear power station, at a moment when we learn that global uranium reserves will suffice for another hundred years or so.

05.06.2008 Yesterday, June 4, 2008, the Roma Education and Information Centre in Mursko Središće opened, a part of the project of the same name implemented by the Autonomous Centre ACT and its partners, the Međimurje County, the City of Mursko Središće and local community of Sitnica.

04.06.2008 The Centre for Peace Studies joined the condemnations of the attacks on Lukač - Koritinik and Miljuš. Gordan Bosanac, CMS Programme Coordinator, says that any use of physical force and other forms of violence against persons who have dedicated their work to fight discrimination of vulnerable groups and individuals, or fight organized crime, are worrying developments.