Croatia

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Croatia has forced back asylum seekers and migrants who attempt to enter from Serbia. Asylum seekers and refugees have difficulties accessing language classes, education, and employment. People with disabilities continue to be denied the rights to legal capacity and to live in the community. Ethnic minorities, notably Roma and Serbs, regularly experience discrimination. The Croatian judiciary has made slow progress towards accountability for war crimes.

Migrants

December 11, 2018 Report

Croatia: Migrants Pushed Back to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Disability Rights

December 3, 2018 Dispatches

Thousands of People with Disabilities in Croatia Trapped in Institutions

Emina Ćerimović
Senior Researcher, Disability Rights Division
Children's Rights

October 10, 2018 News Release

Croatia: End Confinement of People with Disabilities

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October 6, 2014 Video

Croatia: Out of Institutions, Into the World

Reports More Reports

December 11, 2018

Croatia: Migrants Pushed Back to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Violence, Abuse; Denied Opportunity to Apply for Asylum
October 6, 2014

Croatia: Locked Up and Neglected

Meager Progress on Moving People With Disabilities Into the Community
September 23, 2010

“Once You Enter, You Never Leave”

Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Intellectual or Mental Disabilities in Croatia

News

March 27, 2019 Letter

Letter to Prime Minister Plenković on Balkans Trans and Intersex Pride March
October 9, 2018 Letter

Joint Letter to Prime Minister Plenković on Confinement of People with Disabilities
July 10, 2018 Commentary

Balkan Summit Must be More Than Hot Air

Todor Gardos
Researcher, Europe and Central Asia Division

Published In: Balkan Insight
May 31, 2018 News Release

Croatia: Stalled Progress for People with Disabilities
March 12, 2018 Letter

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Croatia
February 5, 2018 Commentary

EU needs commitment to rights in West Balkans

Todor Gardos
Researcher, Europe and Central Asia Division

Published In: euobserver
January 9, 2018 Commentary

Yugoslavia's War Crimes Tribunal Showed the Promise – and Limits – of International Justice

Benjamin Ward
UK Director (Acting) & Deputy Director, Europe & Central Asia Division

Published In: Foreign Policy in Focus
July 14, 2017 Dispatches

UN Human Rights Council Elections, Not Much of a Race After All

Akshaya Kumar
Deputy United Nations Director
March 8, 2017 Letter

Civil Society Letter to Heads of State and Government on EU Response to the Refugee Crisis
January 20, 2017 News Release

Croatia: Asylum Seekers Forced Back to Serbia
January 12, 2017 News Release

Balkans: Protecting Rights Key for EU Progress
October 24, 2016 News Release

UN: Russia’s Role in Syria Raises Questions About Bid for Human Rights Council

World Report 2019

Croatia

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Our People

Lydia Gall

Researcher, Eastern Europe and Western Balkans LydsG

Daily Brief

April 18, 2019

Torture persists in Mosul jail; Sudan should transfer Al-Bashir and other Sudanese fugitives to the International Criminal Court; Myanmar satire should not be a crime; if Brunei's stoning law is enforced, sanction the sultan; Georgia must protect fleeing Saudi sisters; Pakistan cares about the rights of all Muslims - except those oppressed by China; the European Parliament calls for targeted sanctions over Xinjiang crackdown; and two human rights defenders amongst the 100 most influential people of 2019.

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October 8, 2015

Exodus: Asylum Seekers Flee Into Europe

“What will happen to us?” “Will they fingerprint us?” was the constant refrain as we watched a human wave of asylum seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan crossing the Serbia-Hungary border.