ZAGREB, May 22, 2018 - In Croatia, the situation with women's entrepreneurship is slightly better than in Southeast Europe, but is still bad because women do not have sufficient support either from institutions or from their family, which requires change in social consciousness, the head of the International Business Women's Network of Croatia Ivana Radić told a conference in Zagreb on Tuesday.

ZAGREB, May 4, 2018 - The Croatian Employers' Association (HUP) and the Canadian Embassy on Thursday launched an initiative to set up the globally recognised "30% Club" in Croatia in a bid to encourage greater representation of women on the management and supervisory boards of companies.

ZAGREB, April 25, 2018 - The status of women on the labour market continues to be poorer than the status of men, they encounter problems with their employers when it comes to maternity, they are exposed to sexual harassment and unsafe working conditions, and there is a lack of measures to ensure work-life balance, it was said at a round table discussion on gender equality on the labour market, organised on Wednesday by the Parliament's Gender Equality Committee.

ZAGREB, April 23, 2018 - Croatian Foreign Minister Marija Pejčinović Burić attended an informal meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) in Toronto on Sunday and on that occasion she spoke about Croatia's experiences from the war of independence in the 1990s and the peaceful reintegration of its Danube region.

ZAGREB, April 13, 2018 - The Croatian parliament on Friday ratified the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, with 110 votes in favour, 30 against and two abstentions.

ZAGREB, April 13, 2018 - A rally against the ratification of the Istanbul Convention was held in Split on Thursday evening, with speakers at the event claiming that the document would impose a new totalitarianism on Croatia and calling on the government to pursue a policy of sovereignty instead of its current policy of servility.

ZAGREB, April 12, 2018 - Most political groups in the Croatian parliament said during a debate on Wednesday that they would support the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, emphasising that it was an important step forward in protecting human rights and warning of the politicisation of the issue in public.

ZAGREB, April 9, 2018 - Four young Croatian scientists who have contributed to science and society have been awarded fellowships from the L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science initiative.

ZAGREB, April 8, 2018 - The largest number of complaints which the Gender Equality Ombudswoman received in 2017 concerned labour rights and employment as well as social security, and most reports were filed by women who complained about gender-based discrimination, the Office of Ombudswoman Višnja Ljubičić says in a report for 2017.

ZAGREB, March 27, 2018 - Abortion is not a matter of point of view, it is the right to adequate protection of women's sexual and reproductive health, the Women's Network said on Monday, condemning Health Minister Milan Kujundžić's statement that the Catholic Church would be involved in drafting a new law on abortion.