Country Croatia
Year 2009
Type of Measure Social services > Shelter/Safe accommodation
Form of Violence Trafficking

Brief Description


Civil society organisations manage two national safe-houses (financed by the Government of the Republic of Croatia), are members of mobile teams, and operate a hot line for combating trafficking in human beings. This cooperation was formalised in the following agreements: the Cooperation Agreement between the Office for Human Rights, as the National Coordinator's Office, and the PETRA Network (2007), the Cooperation Agreement of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the Ministry of the Interior with civil society organisations dealing with the provision of services of safe accommodation to victims of trafficking in human beings (2008), the Cooperation Agreement between the Office for Human Rights and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and OIP (Organizacija za integritet i prosperitet) Split and the Home for the Re-education of Children and Young People (2009).

Source of Information

Response of the Government of Croatia to the questionnaire on Beijing +15, 2009