Croatia

07.03.2008 On the occasion of March 8, the International Women`s Day, the Women Committee of the Union of State and Local Administration warned of the problems faced by women employed by public administrative services. Although salaries of male and female civil servants are equal for equal tasks and obligations, the availability of best paid, high ranking offces is debatable.

04.03.2008 The SOS Phone for Women and Children Victims of Domestic Violence celebrated yesterday its 20th anniversary. It expressed its gratitude to all activists that took part in its creation and work.

26.02.2008 Aware of the fact the international nuclear lobby has launched a global offensive, abusing the findings of the latest IPPC Global Climate Report requiring urgent dramatic reduction of CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, the Zelena lista (Green List), associate member of European Green Party, was nevertheless shocked by recent announcement of possible construction of nuclear power station in Croatia by 2020.

25.02.2008 According to announcements, Croatia should receive the invitation to join NATO this April. Croatian membership is taken for granted and indisputable, in spite of absence of proper public debate, says the open letter of the AntiNATO ffzg.

22.02.2008 Last Saturday, February 16, the BORNA – Blogging Committee for Referendum on NATO was created in Zagreb. The Committee gathers individual bloggers active on blog.hr and bloger.hr portals, and on the group portal pollitika.com.

20.02.2008 Civil society organizations demanded from the Croatian Sabor (the Parliament) to name the external members of Parliamentary Committees in a clear and transparent procedure, to reduce the number of laws adopted in an urgent procedure, and demanded greater transparency from the Government in terms of allocation of funds from the State Budget.

18.02.2008 Vjeran Piršić, President of the Council of Eko Kvarner association, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, regarding the incident with Turkish vessel Und Adriyatik and warning of the very real danger for Croatia not to learn several important lessons from the incident.

13.02.2008 The Vukovar District Court ruled that Damir Fintic, administrator of the vukovarac.net web-site, shall pay an amount of 71,000 Kuna to Dragica Stengl, the wife of former Mayor of Vukovar Vladimir Stengl, as compensation for the psychological suffering caused by an article published on the web-site.

11.02.2008 On the third day of consumer boycott, there are visible results, at least in terms of frequency of visitors at bigger stores in Zagreb. The parking lots are empty and there are just a couple of people at the cash-registers.

07.02.2008 The fire that started on the Turkish ship Und Adriyatica yesterday morning, some 15 miles east off Rovinj, still burns, although it has lost much of its power. Experts estimate that there is little chance for explosion that could sink the ship. No pollution was released into the sea, so far.