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Enhance protection for migrants, including taking serious efforts to incorporate principles under the Convention on Migrant Workers

Ensure adequate accommodation and care to unaccompanied migrant children

Stop implementing policies and measures that violate the rights of migrants

Take concrete steps to protect the human rights of migrants and persons seeking international protection in the country, including by promoting a culture of tolerance and the prevention of unlawful deportations

Ensure protection of the human rights of migrants and refugees, including through the development of effective integration policies

Put an end to the attacks and harassment on non-governmental organizations promoting the rights of refugees and migrants in Croatia and their activists and offer a safe environment for their work

Ensure all migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are treated in accordance with international human rights law by providing training for border authorities on their obligations, and by providing immediate and unrestricted access to the Ombudsperson for Human Rights to ensure transparent investigations into reports of mistreatment

Use the expertise of international, regional and national institutions to ensure that border management measures are in full compliance with international human rights obligations and European Union asylum laws, and to enable independent investigations and monitoring

Ensure effective access of refugees and asylum seekers to the territory and a fair and efficient asylum procedure

Ensure border police are provided with guidance in line with international law and that all reports of improper uses of force at the border are thoroughly and transparently investigated and prosecuted as appropriate

Continue to follow up on reports of mistreatment and excessive use of force against migrants at the borders, including through effective and independent monitoring and investigation, and taking action to prevent its recurrence

Ensure effective access of persons in need of international protection to the territory and continue to follow up on reported incidents of mistreatment and excessive use of force at the borders

Investigate all complaints from civil society about excessive use of force and intimidation by Croatian law enforcement agents against migrants that reach Croatian borders, and ensure fair and individualized asylum procedures that are available to asylum seekers

Proceed with the investigations of allegations regarding mistreatment of irregular migrants, in an objective, transparent and comprehensive manner

Investigate all allegations of irregularities in the treatment of migrants as well as grant the Office of the Ombudswoman full access to documents requested and to facilities for migrants, in line with target 10.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals

Reinforce the protection of the rights of migrants and refugees, including by ensuring the enjoyment of their rights to education and to health

Provide to refugee and asylum seekers effective access to international protection, and review its policy of return and collective deportation of migrants

Extend the National Strategy for People with Disabilities beyond 2020, and incorporate among its priorities the comprehensive response to health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and its impacts in all spheres of the lives of people with disabilities, as well as the specific protocols to deal with them in that population group

Ensure full access to education for people with disabilities, implementing all reasonable adjustments, in the terms provided by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Establish measures to ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to quality social and community support, with an emphasis on health care, education and employment

Continue efforts deployed to integrate socially and economically persons with disabilities and members of minorities

Provide training on the rights stipulated in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for all government officials and professionals in the public and private sector who work with persons with disabilities

Strengthen its efforts to adapt its legislation and practices to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including by restoring legal capacity, substituting involuntary institutionalization with psychiatric services at liberty, and restricting the application of coercion in respect of persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities

Take measures to make the electoral process fully accessible to all persons with disabilities and facilitate their participation in the representative and executive bodies

Further promote the increase of employment of persons with disabilities in the open labour market

Continue efforts to promote inter-ethnic harmony, including effective steps towards protection and social inclusion for all minority groups

Fully implement policies and programmes on anti-discrimination to protect the rights of minorities, advance inter-ethnic relations and address societal discrimination against minorities

Fully implement the right to equal usage of minority languages and scripts, in compliance with Croatia’s legal framework, with a special focus on those regions where this right especially applies

Improve the socioeconomic situation of the Roma national minority, also by ensuring adequate living conditions and access to education and health care

Accelerate efforts to protect the rights of minorities, by promoting the use of the Cyrillic alphabet and safeguarding the right to housing of the Roma community