The Republic of Croatia has made great progress in the normative regulation of protection against domestic violence, and has assumed a number of obligations prescribed by international treaties. It is a fact that misdemeanor and criminal proceedings are being conducted against perpetrators of domestic violence, and that many perpetrators have been sanctioned. However, it is also a fact that women (and children) are still most often […]
Women's feminist organizations CESI and Babe! from Zagreb, Domine from Split, CGI from Poreč and Delfin from Pakrac have created the Women's Platform 2011. The Women's Platform presents women's demands to political parties ahead of the 2011 parliamentary elections, and was created as a result of conversations that activists from our organizations had with women across Croatia. The platform was created from […]
Today, September 27, 2011, Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (in 2004), died. She died in her homeland of Kenya after a long battle with a serious illness. She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and, since the late 1970s, has tirelessly advocated for greening the world by planting trees. She tirelessly […]
BaBe! Selska 112 a 10000 Zagreb www.babe.hr babe@babe.hr Zagreb, August 15, 2011. Reaction to the reaction of Anton Filić, President of the Executive Board of the Croatian National Theatre I will be brief. At the beginning, I immediately admit that the members of BaBe and I personally know the journalist Nataša Škaričić very well, but I emphasize that we are not reacting out of friendly relations, but out of disgust at the content […]
