In two days, the project has received 10,000 dollars in funding.

ZAGREB, March 8, 2018 - President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on Thursday extended her best wishes to all women in Croatia on International Women's Day, calling on them to remember all of the women role models in their families and the society, all small and big battles women had won through the history of the gender equality fight, underlining that Croatia had achieved a lot in the gender equality, but that there is still a lot to be done in that field.

ZAGREB, March 8, 2018 - The Istanbul Convention is not trying to change gender roles but its purpose is to educate against stereotypes based on the idea that women are inferior to men, the Council of Europe said in a statement on Thursday.

ZAGREB, March 8, 2018 - Women in the European Union were paid on average 16.2% less than men in 2016, which means that women earned on average 84 cents for every euro a man made per hour, according to the EU statistical office Eurostat.

ZAGREB, March 7, 2018 - Croatia's strongest opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Wednesday called on the government to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible, recalling that the SDP had introduced it in Parliament on International Women's Day, March 8, last year.

ZAGREB, February 10, 2018 - The civic initiative "Let Us Protect Women - Reject Ideology" has called on launching a broad public discussion involving all stakeholders in society on pros and cons for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. The initiative on Saturday called on the ruling party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), to organise this debate.

ZAGREB, February 10, 2018 - The situation in Croatia in terms of women's rights and violence against women is not good as the number of women killed rises every year and one woman is abused every 15 minutes, it was said in Zagreb on Saturday at a rally called “Handmaids rise for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.”

ZAGREB, February 7, 2018 - Despite a growing institutional and public-policy framework in the field of gender equality in European countries, there is still insufficient progress in real gender practice and women continue to be in an unfavourable position on the labour market and in the private sphere and Croatia is not an exception to this trend, it was said at a conference on professional equality between men and women on Wednesday.

Controversial politician causes turmoil once again.

While most other members of the European Union have already ratified the convention on preventing violence against women, the government of Croatia, under pressure from the conservative groups, seems unsure what to do.