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Dating Violence Warnings Candy-Wrapped in Croatia
ZAGREB, Croatia (WOMENSENEWS)–To their teachers, parents and friends, Tanja and Mario seemed to be typical high school sweethearts. But after a few months of dating, Mario became increasingly...
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Croatian Wives Contend With War’s After Shocks
ZAGREB, Croatia (WOMENSENEWS)–The sound of gunshots, a bomb, screams–anything that evokes war–is Sanja Mrva’s worst fear. Whenever war comes up on television in a documentary or the latest Matt Damon...
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Croatia’s Jobless Women Say ‘Hope is Very Low’
SPLIT, CAKOVEC, ZAGREB, Croatia (WOMENSENEWS)–For over a year Biserka Kristofic has been battling depression and anxiety. After witnessing the slow destruction of the company she worked at for 29...
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Croatia’s Wartime Rape Law Raises Hope and Doubt
Women in the Homeland War Association. ZAGREB, Croatia (WOMENSENEWS)–Riot police and barricades blocked all roads leading to Croatia‘s parliament building on a day when lawmakers were set to pass a law...
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In Croatia, Wartime Rape Survivors Start Testing a New Law
ZAGREB, Croatia (WOMENSENEWS)– Ana Klasi?ek is beginning to get calls. “When they call and say ‘Thank you, you changed my life,’ it’s really a true satisfaction,” Klasi?ek, a senior legal adviser at...
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In Today’s Refugees I Am Finding My Mother’s Memories
(WOMENSENEWS)–The refugee crisis in Europe hits me in a deep, personal way. Those photographs of the refugees: fathers struggling to hold their children in the waters at the Grecian shore, feeling the...
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Croatia Threatens Secrecy of Country’s Oldest Women’s Shelter
NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)— A social worker photographed the 10 centimeters of space between the wall and bed of each room and added the photo to a thick binder of other details for the Croatian...
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In Croatia, Women Who Volunteered in Refugee Crisis Tap a Wider Gender Gap
ZAGREB, Croatia (WOMENSENEWS)—When the images of refugees pouring through the so-called Balkan Route started coming through the mainstream media in Croatia, Ana ?u?a could not sit still and continue...
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