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 […]
On 21 July 2011, at its 141st session, the Government of the Republic of Croatia adopted the National Action Plan for the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security and Related Resolutions for the Period 2011-2014, not even a week after the adoption of the National Policy for Gender Equality for the Period 2011-2015 in […]
According to Kathryn Bolkovac's book, the movie Whistleblower was recently filmed, which, she is convinced, will finally draw the attention of the State Department and the UN to the abuses of large entrepreneurial military companies such as DynCorp. She came to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999 as a member of the IPTF (International Police Force). After informing superiors and the public about the participation of [...]
