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ANNUAL REPORT on the status of human rights of sexual and gender minorities in Croatia Report: PDF, 942KB Positive advances in the status of the human rights of sexual and gender minorities in Croatia in 2010 are visible, as in previous years, in the increase in reports of incidents of violence nd discrimination made to organisations for the protection of sexual and gender minorities. In 2010 an increased number of people were prepared to speak out publicly about their experiences discrimination or violence on the basis of their sexual orientation. Namely, after the case of Neven Rauk in 2009, last year the media reported on the cases of the attacks on Damir Gerovac nd Goran Hadžić and the case of discrimination at work in which Dario Krešić was the injured party. Nevertheless, it is important to emphasise that the great majority of people who experience discrimination and violence never report such incidents because of their lack of confidence in the Croatian legal system, and fear of disclosure of their sexual orientation or gender identity. LGBT persons are subjected to discrimination and violence in their everyday lives because of their gender identity and/or gender expression. The most negative event in 2010 happened on International Human Rights Day itself, 10 December 2010, and symbolically speaks of the state of the human rights of sexual and gender 2010 Annual Report on the Status of Human Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities minorities in the Republic of Croatia and the readiness of state institutions to protect the human ights of these marginalised groups. After a shameful debate in the Croatian Parliament on the previous day, legal proposals which would have introduced mechanisms for the protection of basic human rights of transgender persons were rejected on International Human Rights Day. Namely, we drew up a draft Bill on Amendments to the State Registries Act and draft Bill on Amendments to the Personal Names Act whose aim was the protection of the right to respect of the private lives of transgender persons, and presented them to state institutions and political parties at the beginning of the year, after which the SDP put them into parliamentary procedure. The proposals contained protection mechanisms to ensure that a request for a change of name would not be published on the notice board of the responsible municipality, and that changes of gender and name are not evident on a person’s birth certificate. It would also have enabled persons who have not undergone a complete sex reassignment procedure to change the data on their documents, which is especially important for the protection of the human rights of minors who are undergoing sex reassignment procedures but who are unable to complete the procedure because of their age. An example of the breach of human rights which is the result of precisely the existing legal regulations is the case of a minor whose mother approached us over a year ago. Namely, her child had been badly treated in school by both pupils and teachers because of its gender identity and the Ombudswoman for Children had even reacted. After this, the child should have registered in a new school, but it was not possible to change the data on gender in the child’s personal documents according to existing legal regulations (the name was changed to neutral with another explanation). Therefore data about the child’s change of gender will be once more available to the staff of the new school. Given that personal documents are presented when registering for extracurricular activities and on numerous other occasions, there exist another large number of people without legal interest to whom private data about the child will be available. Despite everything described, the above draft bills were placed at the end of the daily agenda in the Croatian Parliament and were refused urgent procedure, even though it was a case of legal proposals whose aim was to prevent the breach of the human rights of an extremely vulnerable social group. And finally, in a shameful debate in the Croatian Parliament on 9 December 2010 (which only occurred by chance because all the items on the agenda were put out of order at the last minute), only four members of Parliament applied to speak. On the day before International Human Rights Day, almost nobody in the Croatian Parliament was interested in the debate about human rights. We would also like to mention that it was evident during the debate on the Anti- Discrimination Act that the majority of members of Parliament do not even know what gender identity is. The Anti-Discrimination Act which bans discrimination on the basis of gender identity thus still exists only on paper, because other laws are not harmonised with it due to a lack of political will. By this behaviour, discrimination of transgender persons is openly supported by state institutions which refused to protect the human rights of transgender persons on precisely International Human Rights Day. A year ago Lesbian Group Kontra also submitted a request to the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality of the above laws but we have not yet received any answer. Unfortunately, the only course available to citizens who are transgender persons in the Republic of Croatia is to fight for their human rights at the European Court of Human Rights which has already brought a number of positive judgements in similar cases. We would also like to highlight as a great setback to the protection of human rights the failure for the second consecutive year by the responsible institutions to ban the fascist protest entitled “anti-gay protest” organised by the Croatian Pure Party of Rights. The announcements of the protest contained an incitement to violence and instructions for preparing weapons (Molotov cocktails), and participants at the protests shouted “Kill the faggots” and on both occasions physically attacked participants of Zagreb Pride. There was no reaction by the responsible institutions, the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs despite requests from non-government organisations for the second consecutive year and despite the reactions and warnings of the Ombudswoman for Gender Equality and the People’s Ombudsman.
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IZVJEŠTAJ o stanju ljudskih prava seksualnih i rodnih manjina u 2010. godini u Republici Hrvatskoj Izvještaj: PDF, 896KB Pozitivni pomaci u stanju prava seksualnih i rodnih manjina u Republici Hrvatskoj u 2010. godini vidljivi su kao i proteklih godina vezano za prijave nasilja i diskriminacije udrugama za zaštitu seksualnih i rodnih manjina. U 2010. godini bilježimo povećan broj osoba koje su bile spremne javno progovarati o svom iskustvu diskriminacije ili nasilja na temelju seksualne orijentacije. Naime, nakon slučaja Nevena Rauka iz 2009.godine, u protekloj godini mediji su popratili slučaj napada na Damira Gerovca i Gorana Hadžića, te slučaj diskriminacije na radnom mjestu u kojem je bio oštećeni Dario Krešić. Ipak, potrebno je naglasiti da velika većina osoba koje su doživjele diskriminaciju i nasilje nikada ne prijavi takve incidente zbog nepovjerenja u hrvatski pravni sustav i straha od razotkrivanja njihove spolne orijentacije ili rodnog identiteta. LGBT osobe izložene su diskriminaciji i nasilju u svakodnevnom životu zbog svoje seksualne orijentacije i/ili rodnog identiteta. Najnegativniji događaj u 2010. godini dogodio se upravo na Međunarodni dan ljudskih prava, 10. prosinca 2010. godine, te simbolično govori o stanju ljudskih prava seksualnih i rodnih manjina u Republici Hrvatskoj i spremnosti državnih institucija da zaštite ljudska prava tih margnaliziranih skupina. Nakon sramotne rasprave u Hrvatskom saboru na Međunarodni dan ljudskih prava odbačeni su prijedlozi zakona kojima bi se uveli mehanizmi za zaštitu osnovnih ljudskih prava transrodnih osoba. Naime, nacrte Prijedloga Zakona o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o državnim maticama i Prijedloga Zakona o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o osobnom imenu čiji je cilj zaštita prava na poštovanje privatnog života transrodnih osoba izradile/-i smo i predstavile/-i ih državnim institucijama i političkim strankama početkom godine, nakon čega ih je SDP uputio u proceduru. Prijedlozi su sadržavali zaštitne mehanizme kojima bi se osiguralo da se zahtjev za promjenom imena ne objavljuje na oglasnoj ploči u nadležnoj općini, te da promjene spola i imena nisu vidljive na rodnom listu osobe. Također bi se omogućilo osobama koje nisu prošle kroz cijeli postupak promjene spola da promijene podatke na dokumentima, što je posebno značajno zbog zaštite ljudskih prava djece koja se nalaze u postupku promjene spola, ali ne mogu postupak dovršiti zbog svoje dobi. Primjer kršenja ljudskih prava koji je rezulat upravo postojeće zakonske regulative je slučaj djeteta čija nam se majka obratila prije više od godinu dana. Naime, njeno dijete je bilo maltretirano zbog svog rodnog identiteta u školi od strane učenika i profesora, te je čak reagirala i Pravobraniteljica za djecu. Dijete se trebalo upisati nakon toga u novu školu, međutim nije bilo moguće promijeniti podatke o spolu u osobnim dokumentima djeteta po postojećoj zakonskoj regultaivi (ime je promijenjeno u neutralno s drugim obrazloženjem). Podaci o promjeni spola djeteta će zbog toga ponovo biti dostupni osoblju nove škole. Budući da se osobni dokumenti predaju i prilikom upisa na izvannastavne aktivnosti te na brojnim drugim mjestima, postoji još cijeli niz osoba bez pravnog interesa kojima će biti dostupni privatni podaci o djetetu. Unatoč svemu opisanom, navedeni prijedlozi zakona su u Hrvatskom saboru stavljani na kraj dnevnog reda, te im je odbijena hitna procedura, iako se radi o zakonskim prijedlozima čiji je cilj zaustaviti kršenja ljudskih prava jedne izrazito ranjive društvene skupine. Konačno, na sramotnoj raspravi u Hrvatskom saboru 10. prosinca 2010. (do koje je došlo samo igrom slučaja jer su sve točke dnevnog reda ispremiješane u zadnji tren), samo četvero zastupnika se javilo za riječ. Dan prije Međunarodnog dana ljudskih prava, rasprava o ljudskim pravima nije zanimala gotovo nikoga u Hrvatskom saboru. Također podsjećamo da se još za vrijeme rasprave o Zakonu o suzbijanju diskriminacije pokazalo da većina zastupnika uopće ni ne zna što je to rodni identitet. Zakon o suzbijanju diskriminacije u kojem postoji zabrana diskriminacije na temelju rodnog identiteta tako ostaje mrtvo slovo na papiru, jer se drugi zakoni s njim ne usklađuju zbog nedostatka političke volje. Ovakvim postupkom diskriminacija transrodnih osoba otvoreno je podržana od strane državnih institucija koje su odbile zaštititi ljudska prava transrodnih osoba upravo na Međunarodni dan ljudskih prava. Prije godinu dana Lezbijska grupa Kontra podnijela je i prijedlog za ocjenu ustavnosti navedenih zakona Ustavnom sudu, međutim za sada nismo dobile nikakav odgovor. Nažalost, građanima i građankama, transrodnim osobama u RH preostaje jedino da se izbore za svoja ljudska prava na Europskom sudu za ljudska prava koji je već donio niz pozitivnih presuda u sličnim slučajevima. Također izdvajamo kao veliko nazadovanje u zaštiti ljudskih prava već drugu godinu za redom izostanak zabrane od strane nadležnih institucija fašističkog prosvjeda pod nazivom „Antigay prosvjed“ u organizaciji Hrvatske čiste stranke prava. Najave prosvjeda su sadržavale pozivanje na nasilje i upute za spravljanje oružja (Molotovljev koktel), a na prosvjedima su sudionici vikali „Ubij pedera!“ i oba puta fizčki napali sudionike Zagreb Pride-a. Reakcija nadležnih institucija – Državnog odvjetništva i Ministarstva unutarnjih poslova je izostala unatoč zahtjevima nevladinih organizacija već drugu godinu za redom, te unatoč reakcijama i upozorenjima Pravobraniteljice za ravnopravnost spolova i Pučkog pravobranitelja.