Croatian MP

Zagreb Initiative to Memorialise Murdered Croatian Serbs Praised

Branka Vierda of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights praised this week's decision by a Zagreb City Assembly commission to add the names of the Zec family, who were murdered in 1991, to a register of names of people who could be memorialised by having a street or public area in the Croatian capital named after them.

Childbirth Often Traumatic in CEE, But Few Women Seek Redress

Daniela Drandic of 'Parents in Action: Roda [Stork]', a Croatian NGO that lobbies for the protection of women's rights in pregnancy and parenthood, said the accounts reflect a widespread failure to listen to and trust women, as well as a lack of confidence among women in the efficiency and fairness of the courts.

Zagreb Fans’ Obscene Anti-Serb Banner Sparks Outrage

A photograph that was circulated on social media of a group of Dinamo Zagreb fans holding lighted flares and a banner with an obscene anti-Serb slogan has provoked outrage.

"There does not seem to be a rock bottom," Dario Brentin, associated researcher from the University of Graz in Austria, an expert on sport and nationalism in Croatia, wrote on Twitter on Friday.

Linta condemns Tomasic's statement on minorities

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta most fiercely condemned on Friday the pro-ustasha statement of Croatian MP in the European Parliament Ruza Tomasic who said that the status of national minorities in Croatia should be called off and that all members of national minorities are 'political Croats.'