Today, Thursday, July 23th 2020, the Centre for Peace Studies filed one more criminal complaint to the State Attorney's Office in Zagreb against the unknown perpetrators due to well-founded suspicion that at the end of May they tortured, humiliated and pushed back 16 refugees from the territory of the Republic of Croatia to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Civil initiative Info Kolpa, a key member of the Border Violence Monitoring Network, are sharing here the landmark judgement issued on 16th July 2020 by the Slovenian Administrative Court. The findings prove that the national police force carried out an illegal collective expulsion of a member of a persecuted English-speaking minority from Cameroon who wanted to apply for asylum in Slovenia.

Do you have an idea of opening your own business that would help you and the people around you, but you don't know where to start? 

Are you a foreigner in Croatia? 

Center for Peace Studies, together with the other partners from the European Union project "STIRE:SUPPORTING THE INTEGRATION OF THE RESETTLED", published the Community guide for volunteering, where old and new members of the society can read more about volunteering in Croatia. 

The Centre for Peace Studies (CMS) has launched a campaign called #ovdježivimo (#welivehere) within Refugee Weeks in Croatia to share the stories of refugees who have found their new home in Croatia about their integration in the new environment.

Impact Hub Zagreb and the Centre for Peace Studies - Centar za mirovne studije, for the Refugees' weeks, on Friday 19 June from 10   to 12 are organizing an online "BEST Roundtable - Creative Collaborative Opportunities" on the topic of encouraging entrepreneurial skills as a tool for integrating migrants into the labour market and with the aim of creating synergies with external partners and stakeholders.

Today, Centre for Peace Studies filed a criminal complaint to the State Attorney's Office in Zagreb against the unknown perpetrators police officers based on a reasonable doubt of degrading treatment and torture of 33 people and their violent, illegal expulsion from the territory of the Republic of Croatia to Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

This morning, the Centre for Peace Studies and the Welcome! Initiative presented to the Government the “Report on violent and illegal expulsions of children and unaccompanied children” where the activists collected testimonies of children who sought protection from Croatia, but Croatia answered with violence.

This morning, Centre for Peace Studies and the Welcome! Initiative organized a street action in front of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) building. Activists requested to the responsible institution to initiate effective investigations, instead of denying violence against refugees.

Five people, five life stories, one goal.