Ombudsman Office (Ured pučkog pravobranitelja) (2013), Annual Report of the Ombudsman Office for 2013 (Izvješće pučke pravobraniteljice za 2013. godinu)
Country
Croatia
Title
2013. godinu)
Year
Type of publication
Geographical coverage
National
Area/location of interest
Type of Institution
National human rights body
Institution
Main Thematic Focus
Discrimination
Target Population
General population Migrants Ethnic minorities Religious minorities
Key findings
In 2013, there were 57 cases of discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, race or skin colour (22,98%) and five cases of discrimination on the grounds of religion (2,01%) reported to Ombudsman Office. Most of these cases were misdemeanours. The report does not state which religion is the ground of discrimination. The report also states that Ministry of Interior and State Attorney’s office registered 57 cases of hate crimes, out of which in 48 cases the bias motivation was race, ethnicity or nationality. The number of asylum seekers in 2013 was 1226 most of whom were from Syria (229), Afghanistan (196) and Somalia (139).
Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)
Ombudsman Office analyses and evaluates the situation in some areas of human rights protection and combating discrimination, mostly based on citizens' complaints, as well as other sources of information, such as annual reports and publicly available materials of various actors, expert articles and research, but also the responses of state bodies, non-governmental organizations, social partners, religious communities, human rights councils and others.
Sample details and representativeness
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