Ageing has to include dignity and human rights
People everywhere must be allowed to age with dignity and human rights, stressed the participants of the Eights session of the Open-Ended Working Group of Ageing (OEWG) that…
Ombudswoman, member of GANHRI Working Group on Aging
Ombudswoman Lora Vidović was elected as a member of the GANHRI Working Group on Aging on 6 March, 2017 in Geneva. Working group is tasked for making improvement…
International Human Rights Day
Almost 70 years ago, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Two years later, the Assembly pronounced the 10th…
„Far Away from the City – Far Away from the Rights? – Human Rights in Rural Areas“
Almost 2 million citizens of Croatia live in rural and semi-urban areas. The fact that they live at some distance from the urban centers often entails the inaccessibility…
Ombudswoman submitted her Annual Report for 2013 to the Parliament, March 31st, 2014
Ombudswoman submitted the 2013 Annual Report to the Croatian Parliament which, for the first time, unified four reports on all institution’s mandates: protection and promotion of human rights…
World Day of Social Justice – Call for adoption of the higher standards of social rights
The UN General Assembly proclaimed 20th February as the World Day of Social Justice in November 2007. 192 member states supported efforts of the international community in poverty eradication,…
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