ZAGREB, Dec 10 (Hina) - The Croatian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, saying that Croatia had adopted all the basic and latest international instruments from the area
of human rights.
ZAGREB, Dec 10 (Hina) - The Croatian Foreign Ministry issued a
statement on Wednesday on the occasion of International Human
Rights Day, saying that Croatia had adopted all the basic and latest
international instruments from the area of human rights. #L#
In 2003 Croatia signed the Additional Protocol to the U.N.
Convention against Torture and ratified Protocols Nos. 12 and 13 to
the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine as well as the
additional protocol banning human cloning and the protocol on organ
and tissue transplantation.
In cooperation with the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for
Human Rights, the Croatian government established the Human Rights
Centre with the aim of systematically promoting and protecting
human rights. Croatia is a member of the U.N. Commission for Human
Rights in the period 2002-2004.
The General Declaration on Human Rights was adopted in 1948. The
preamble of the declaration affirms the dignity of every human
being and emphasises the universality, inter-dependence and
indivisibility of civil, political, cultural, economic and social
rights. Today, human rights are built into the efforts of the U.N.
and its member-countries in the areas of peace, humanitarian
assistance, sustainable development, and social and economic
progress.
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