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ZAGREB, 8 March 2022 - A group of female MPs from different parties warned on Tuesday, on International Women's Day, about the unequal and unfair status of women in the Croatian society, and called for continuing to fight against the pay gap between women and men and securing protection for victims of domestic violence. Offering her best wishes to women on their day, Sandra Benčić of the Green-Left Bloc said they wanted to raise key legislative issues such as those related to women and their right to a home, unfair and unequal ownership of resources, the issue of women workers and the right to the…

ZAGREB, 8 March 2022 - Despite greater employability and more women in leading positions they are still insufficiently represented in the economy, particularly at the highest levels which indicates that there are still significant legal, structural and cultural obstacles to their full equality, it was heard at a conference on Tuesday. The conference  - An economy without prejudice strengthening the economy by empowering women - was organised on the occasion of International Women's Day by the Croatian Employers' Association (HUP) and International Network of Business Women. The status of women in Croatian society hasn't changed drastically despite a lot of…

ZAGREB, 8 March 2022 - President Zoran Milanović said on Tuesday that he had never heard of Ivan Paladina, the candidate for the new construction minister, but that he could see that he was close to Russian oligarchs and that he would prefer to see a politician or an engineer in that post. "The man has sizeable assets, which on the one hand deserves respect, but on the other hand, one always wonders how somebody's property was acquired, if they are not a top athlete or innovator but a broker," said Milanović. Commenting on the fact that the new minister was not a member of the…

ZAGREB, 8 March 2022 - The Croatian Bar Association (HOK) on Tuesday stated that it had joined in a campaign by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) to offer free legal aid to Ukrainian refugees. Offering free legal aid is in compliance with national legislation on lawyers and their code of ethics, which envisages such assistance to endangered individuals and victims of the 1991-95 Homeland War. HOK recalls that lawyers represent, free of charge, underage clients in certain cases as well as asylum seekers and members of the Roma community in the City of Zagreb and in…

March the 9th, 2022 - Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac has met with Elon Musk in Manhattan, New York, and he cited the meeting on his personal Facebook profile as ''fun and intense''. Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac, born in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is more than well known across Croatia for doing what many would have considered impossible before him. The founder of Rimac Automobili and Greyp Bikes is just 34 years old and his dogged determination has resulted in success even he, who began his path in a garage, could never have dreamed of. Since then he has made a…

ZAGREB, 8 March 2022 - In the last 24 hours 16 people have died as a consequence of infection with COVID-19 and 1,016 new cases of the infection have been registered, with the number of active cases standing at 7,938, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Monday. There are 930 hospitalised patients, of whom 61 are on ventilators, while 5,532 persons are self-isolating. Croatia has registered 1,065,001 coronavirus cases to date and the death toll is 15,250. To date, 56.87% of the population or 67.64% of adults have been vaccinated, including 65.56% fully.

ZAGREB, 8 March 2022 - On the occasion of International Women's Day on Tuesday, the chair of the Croatian Parliament's Gender Equality Committee, Marija Selak Raspudić (Bridge), announced a bill to improve the status of women on the labour market, while advocating prevention of domestic violence. "We need to work on equality in state and public institutions and review the job classification system and pay grades in this sector," Selak Raspudić told a press conference, adding that a plan for the real sector could follow after that. She warmed that women entrepreneurs are in a more difficult position than men on the labour market,…

ZAGREB, 8 March 2022 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković congratulated women on International Women's Day on Tuesday, thanking them for making Croatian society more progressive, humane and better, and in particular for nurturing family values. "Achieving equality for women in society is our firm commitment. With the synergy of the measures for greater employability of women, advancing demographic measures and the resolute fight against all forms of discrimination and violence against women, we are resolute in creating a society of equal opportunities," Plenković said on his Twitter account.

ZAGREB, 8 March 2022 - Marking International Women's Day, the non-governmental organisation U ime obitelji (In the Name of the Family) said on Tuesday that the two most frequent forms of social injustice that a lot of women in Croatia are faced with is working on Sunday and the the discrimination women who choose to be mothers are subjected to on the labour market. The NGO underscored that tens of thousands of women who work six days a week are compelled out of fear of losing their jobs to work a seventh day, Sundays and public holidays, without any or with a minimum…

ZAGREB, 8 March 2022 - Croatian Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković extended his best wishes for International Women's Day on Tuesday, saying that a lot of effort still needed to be made to achieve equality between women and men in all spheres of society. "Today, when we observe International Women's Day, we remember the long way women had to go to have their basic human and civil rights recognised. Although their struggle began in the early 20th century, a lot of effort still needs to be made to achieve equality between women and men in all social spheres," Jandroković said in…