{"id":1274,"date":"2015-12-11T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T08:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.ombudsman.hr\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2015-12-11T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T08:58:28","slug":"international-human-rights-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/international-human-rights-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Human Rights Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 10<sup>th<\/sup> of December the International Day of Human Rights. This year it is being observed around the world under the motto \u201cOur Freedoms. Our Rights. Always!\u201d, with an emphasis on the importance of making further efforts to protect and promote human rights and freedoms as well as on the numerous challenges still present in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>The four freedoms underpinning the international human rights documents are the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of worship, the freedom from fear and the freedom from want. The freedom from want entails the enjoyment of various rights, such as the right to social security, the right to education, health care and work.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>According to the data published by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, almost one half of the citizens of Croatia live in rural and semi-urban areas. This means that a little less than 2 million of them are facing the risks connected with living outside of the cities. The complaints received by the Office of the Ombudswoman, as well as the data collected though the Office\u2019s fieldwork, point to the problems such as the inaccessibility of health care and social services, remote and poorly equipped facilities, inadequate public transportation networks, as well as the lack of proper employment opportunities. These are just some of the problems encountered by the population of the rural areas, which disproportionally affect the most vulnerable social groups: the elderly, children, persons with disabilities and women.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason Ombudswoman Lora Vidovi\u0107, the Ombudswoman for Gender Equality, Vi\u0161nja Ljubi\u010di\u0107, the Ombudswoman for Children, Ivana Milas Klari\u0107 and the Ombudswoman for Persons with Dissabilities, Anka Slonj\u0161ak, organized the conference titled \u201cFar Away from the City \u2013 Far Away from the Rights? Human Rights in Rural Areas\u201d in the Croatian Parliament of December 8 as an introduction to this year\u2019s International Human Rights Day commemoration in our country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 of December the International Day of Human Rights. This year it is being observed around the world under the motto \u201cOur Freedoms. Our Rights. Always!\u201d, with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}