The curricular reform is one of the goals of the National Strategy for Education, Science and Technology adopted in the Croatian Parliament in October 2014. 

Marking the first 100 days of the new Croatian Government, Platform 112- coalition of civil society organisations working on human rights protection and democratisation - presents this report to offer its view on the Government’s work. 

We are seeing hate crime against religious minorities and migrants around the EU on a daily basis. In response, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is today publishing a compendium of good practices from across the EU on how to combat hate crime. This is the culmination of work by the Working Party on combating hate crime, to be presented today at a meeting of the Working Party in cooperation with the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the EU.

Commenting on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Croatia, the civil society organisations "Welcome" and CROSOL (International Civic Solidarity Platform) on Wednesday called on Croatian authorities to "take off their masks" and stop ignoring human rights violations caused by the Turkish president's policies, whom they called a dictator, under the pretext of business investments.

Croatian Foreigners Act is currently being amended. Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) made comments to the Draft Amendments to the Foreigners act (Draft Amendments). CPS main concerns focus around several legal institutes, the most relevant and alarming being the “criminalization of solidarity”.

The Croatian civil society group "Dobrodosli" (Welcome) has sent a letter to Pope Francis ahead of his meeting with Croatian Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic on Thursday, thanking the pontiff for making the public more sensitive to the suffering of people fleeing war and violence and asking him to encourage Croatian political leaders to treat refugees peacefully.

The Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court asking it to assess the constitutionality of amendments to the Defence and State Border Control Acts which make it possible for the army to help police protect the state border in the current migrant crisis. 

Centre for Peace Studies with the support of initiative Welcome! prepared a leaflet with answers to frequently asked questions at the refugee camp in Slavonski Brod for refugees that are situated there. In this leaflet refugees can find information about the opportunities, rights and restrictions of the asylum system in Croatia.

Initiative Welcome and Are You Syrious on Wednesday presented a report in which they conclude, based on observations and interviews, that Croatian authorities have been forcibly detaining refugees in closed-off sections of the refugee transit centre at Slavonski Brod, thus systematically violating their human rights, and called for immediately ensuring free movement for those people. 

Despite the harsh weather, the initiative Welcome and ‘Are You Syrious?’ attracted some 500 people to the “Closing of Borders Kills” protest in St. Mark’s Square in Zagreb against the closing of the so-called Balkan Route, which has left more than 40,000 people trapped at the Greek border.