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ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – 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 - 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 used herein
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