Full Coverage: Croatia

29.09.2006 141 of the 200 public administration bodies (70.5 percent) that received requests for information from Transparency International Croatia on September 4, presented their responses, 125 of them within the legal 15-day deadline.

28.09.2006 September 28, the International Day of the Right to Access Information has been marked all over the world since 2002, aiming to raise the public awareness on the citizens’ right to access information.

27.09.2006 The Osjek Greens association sent an open letter today, to all Members of the Sabor (Croatian Parliament), on the occasion of the start of Debate on problems in Pozega-Slavonija County. The open letter demands expansion of investigation and urgent legal measures to stop the work and close the “Velicanka 2” quarry, operated by Kamen-Ingrad company from Velika, currently involved in bankruptcy procedures.

19.09.2006 The Serb Democratic Forum (SDF) protested the increased frequency of attacks on Ivana Dulic Markovic, Vice-President of Serbian Government, by some media and political parties of the extreme right. Dulic-Markovic is targeted because of her national and ethnic background.

13.09.2006 The Draft-Law on Financing of Political Parties was discussed last Monday (September 11), at a conference held at the Croatian Sabor (the parliament). The conference, organized by OSCE Mission to Croatia and the Central Administrative Office, with assistance from Transparency International Croatia and GONG was opened by Sabor Speaker Vladimir Seks, Prime Minister Sanader and Jorge Fuentes, Head of OSCE Mission to Croatia.

12.09.2006 Youth Centre Livno organizes an exhibition in the facilities of the Pastoral Offices in Livno. The exhibition, “Voluntas, atis f.” will be open for visitors from September 12 to September 15, is designed to present the volunteer work done by citizens of Livno, youth in particular, and stimulate them to involve in volunteering. The exhibition was organized with cooperation and support by the SEE Youth Network (SEEYN).

08.09.2006 “Glas Istre” daily reports that the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (HHO) believes that the announced focus of the coming election campaign on the “fight against crime and corruption” is wrong.

06.09.2006 Yesterday, September 5, Human Rights Watch released its report on Croatia, Decade of Disappointment: Continuing Obstacles to the Reintegration of Serb Returnees.

06.09.2006 The Slobodna kultura (Free Culture) organizations, i.e. Wikimedia Serbia received at the end of August the Letter of Intentions from Creative Commons International, thus becoming official partner of Creative Commons.

05.09.2006 The Croatian Youth Network (CYN) warned at a press conference held today at the serious defects in the contents and the implementation of the Zagreb Competition for funding of youth projects.

05.09.2006 On September 6, the OSCE Mission in Croatia and the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports will launch literary and artistic competition in multicultural schools in Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja Districts. The competition is titled “Children Together”.

04.09.2006 Transparency International Croatia commented last week on the implementation of the National Programme for Suppression of Corruption. The implementation, believes Transparency, deserves passing grades. However, in order to reach all projected goals, it is necessary to intensify the activities and improve the coordination of all institutions included in its implementation.

01.09.2006 The Centre for Peace Studies (original acronym CMS) sent a letter to Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and President Stjepan Mesic, proposing Croatian official sponsorship of the UN Resolution on “Effective International Control over Exports, Imports and Transfer of Conventional Weapons”, recently submitted by the governments of Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan, Kenya and Great Britain.