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– Croatia www.unicef.org/infobycountry/croatia.html [accessed
6 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/croatia.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Statistics on the number of working children under
age 15 in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61642.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] CHILDREN
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Education was free and mandatory through grade eight (generally age 14); boys
and girls had equal access to education. The majority of students continued
their education until the age of 18, with Roma being the only notable
exception. Romani children faced serious obstacles to continuing their
education, including discrimination in schools and a lack of family support.
An estimated 10 percent of Romani children began primary school, and only
approximately 10 percent of these went on to secondary school. Concluding Observations Of The Committee On
The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1
October 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/croatia2004.html [accessed 30 January 2011] [17] The Committee
is concerned about the absence of disaggregated statistical data and other
information on the situation of children, especially those belonging to
different ethnic groups and the most vulnerable groups. This type of
information is lacking in particular with respect to girl children, street
children, disabled children, displaced, refugees and asylum-seekers children,
children from minority groups, Roma children. [41] The Committee
expresses its concern that quite a number of children without parental care
or who have lost contact with their families are in institutions or in foster
care and about the low quality of care and treatment provided to these
children. The Committee is also concerned about the apparent insufficient
monitoring of placements. [57] While noting
the efforts made by the State Party with regard to education - e.g. the 2001
Law on the Changes and Amendments of the Primary Education Law, it remains
concerned about the different access to education of children belonging to
minority and most vulnerable groups, including Roma children, children living
in poverty, children with disabilities and foreign children which hampers the
full enjoyment of a system of education adequate to their values and
identity. The Committee is also concerned that the education system and its
organization remain very centralized and that human rights education is not
included in the curricula. Finally, the Committee is concerned about the
shift system of instruction and the poor equipment and school facilities in
many parts of the country. Committee On Rights Of Child Concludes
Thirty-Seventh Session The
Committee on the Rights of the Child, Press Release HR/4796, 1 October 2004 www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/hr4796.doc [accessed
6 May 2011] The Committee
recommended that the State Party ensure the effective implementation of the
new Asylum Law and that it ensure that refugee and asylum-seeking children
had access to basic services such as education and health and that there was
no discrimination in benefit entitlements for asylum-seeking families that
could negatively affect children. The Committee remained concerned
about the lack of a systematic research on the situation of children affected
by armed conflict, including follow-up monitoring measures, and recommended
that the State party undertake a comprehensive study on children affected by
armed conflict in order to assess the extent, scope and population affected
and to identify its consequences and needed recovery and remedy. The Committee
recommended that the State party further strengthen its efforts to identify,
prevent and combat trafficking in children for sexual and other exploitative
purposes. The Committee also remained concerned about the quality of
institutions and the reports of incidents of violence in detention centres and that persons below 18 in detention or custody
were placed with those up to the age of 27 years. Consequently, it
recommended that the State party protect the rights of children deprived of
their liberty and improve their conditions of detention and imprisonment The News Behind The News – Relief
for Oppressed People Everywhere ROPE, 2001 At
one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible
[here] [accessed
6 May 2011] [04/01] We have urgent
need to help one very poor family who was already described in report of the
last year. Husband 35 (years) was as Croat prisoner in Human Rights
Reports » 2001 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8240.htm [accessed
6 May 2011] NATIONAL/RACIAL/ETHNIC
MINORITIES
- In March two incidents of skinhead violence against Roma were reported: in
Split, four skinheads assaulted a 9-year-old boy; in Zagreb, a group of
approximately 20 skinheads beat three teenage Romani boys outside a
discotheque. In April a gang of skinheads beat a teenage Romani boy at
Zagreb's main railway station. In late April, a group of approximately
30 non-Romani villagers reportedly harassed and beat five Roma with bludgeons
in a town in Eastern Slavonia. Access To Housing For Disadvantaged
Categories Of Persons [DOC] Group
of Specialists on Access to Housing CS-LO (2001) 33, www.coe.int/t/dg3/socialpolicies/socialrights/source/2001selected_en.doc [accessed
6 May 2011] 2.3 Other Eastern -
Central European countries - Croatia Caritas of Zagreb Archdiocese Caritas assists
vulnerable persons to find dwellings.
The projects encourage persons with various backgrounds to share
residence with each other and try to avoid stigmatization and isolation. o Youth who need special care, share flats
with youths who do not need special care. All material
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