A group of 15 trade unions and seven civil society organisations calling for “a referendum on referendums” have so far collected 315,000 signatures for their petition, the group’s coordinators said at a press conference in Zagreb on Thursday, appealing to the public to support their initiative over the remaining three days in order to “save…
Tag: Civil society
ImamoPravoZnati.org – an opportunity for democratic political culture
In an effort to facilitate access to information concerning public authorities via the Internet and to contribute to transparency and responsibility toward citizens, the Programme for Croatia and GONG NGOs on Tuesday presented a new Internet platform – ImamoPravoZnati.org where citizens can search, in three steps, information concerning 6,000 public bodies. The new web site…
Referendum initiative submits two questions to Constitutional Court
The “Pro Referendum” civic initiative submitted two referendum questions to the Constitutional Court on Monday for evaluation, which it intends to raise – that signatures for referendums can be collected at any appropriate place, as is the case now, and that referendums can be called if requested by 200,000 voters or five percent of all…
Growing number of people entering zone of absolute poverty
Due to the protracted economic crisis, a growing number of people in Croatia are entering a zone of absolute poverty, while the authorities and politicians are refusing to face that problem or deal with it in a systematic and constructive way, Milena Romic of the Human Rights House said in Zagreb on Thursday. Presenting the…
No fingers crossed behind back – NO to historic revisionism!
A revisionist relationship to Antifascist history is not only a Croatian problem, although that is no comfort. “Unusual” changes to history are also an issue in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. Despite everything, however, there are “resistance movements” that are trying to preserve Antifascism as a pledge from the past to the future – this was…
“When human beings are silent, the inhuman are free to take lives!”
I always welcome invitations to professional conferences. They are always an opportunity to hear and learn something new, to exchange ideas and views with colleagues. The focus of my interest is the study of the Holocaust – a subject that, for some, still belongs to sensitive historic subjects. For me, the further away a conference…