The organisers of the event, the Autonomous Women's House Zagreb and the government's Office for Gender Equality, presented a book with instructions on how to establish and run a women's shelter.
The head of the Autonomous Women's House, Neva Tolle, said that every fourth woman in Croatia had experienced some kind of violence and that every second murdered woman was murdered by her partner.
More than 300,000 women and children have passed through the Autonomous Women's House since its establishment.
Deputy Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, who attended the conference, advocated removing persons who commit violence from their families and prosecuting their acts as crimes instead of as offences.
A national strategy on the fight against domestic violence that was presented yesterday envisages changes to the most important laws on domestic violence.