lhhscroatiarightsofrefugees

Matthew Tran Country:Croatia Topic:Rights of Refugees

A. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 1. Croatia 2. Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast 3.  B.  POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 4. presidential/parliamentary democracy 5. Zagreb 6. ACCT (observer), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, FAO, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, SECI, UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMOGIP, UNOCI, UNOMIG, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC  7.  Men:16-59 Woman:19-49 C. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY 8. Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German), Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma) and Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none 5.2% 9. 4,491,543, -0.043% , and Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma) 10. Zagreb, Rijeka, Osijek, Sisak, Vukovar, Omisalj, Pula, Zadar, Sibenik, Split, Dugi Rat, Ploce, Dubrovnik 11. //total:// 6.49 deaths/1,000 live births //male:// 6.51 deaths/1,000 live births //female:// 6.46 deaths/1,000 live births and //total population:// 75.13 years //male:// 71.49 years //female:// 78.97 years 12. teachers and doctors per population D. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 13. $16,900 per capita 14. % 17.3%   15.  oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, hydropower 16. chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal, electronics, pig iron and rolled steel products, aluminum, paper, wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding, petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages, tourism 17. major exports and imports 18. Kuna 19. $6.156 billion 20. Former Yugoslav army general Franjo Tudjman's nationalist party won a crushing victory April 22 in Croatia's first [|free election] since World War II. Tudjman eventually removed Serbs from public administration and police jobs.

Rising tension and sporadic fighting between Serbs and Croats gave way to violence in which separatist Serbian gunmen fought with local Croatian police, killing more than 20 by the spring. Serbia blocked the scheduled installation of [|Stipe Mesic] into Yugoslavia's collective presidency, effectively leaving the country leaderless. [|Slovenia and Croatia], the two richest and most Westernized republics, declared their independence. A bloody civil war erupted between Croats and Serbs and by the end of the year, Serbs had annexed nearly one-third of the country. More than 10,000 people – most of them Croats – died in six months of fighting.
 * March-April **
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Both sides agreed on a cease-fire, the 15th since the fighting began, and formally accepted a U.N. plan to deploy international peacekeeping forces in current battle zones. Peacekeepers encountered resistance to their effort to disarm combatants inside some of the internationally protected areas set up under the cease-fire. Meanwhile, Croats celebrated as the European Community recognized their nation as independent. The war between Serbs, Muslims and Croats in neighboring Bosnia pulled in Croatia, which agreed on an alliance with the Muslim-led Bosnian government of President Alija Izetbegovic to fight against Serb separatists. The Croat-Muslim alliance was broken temporarily after they bickered over which group would be in charge once the Serbs were defeated and opened fire on each other in several central Bosnian towns. Croatia continued an offensive in southeastern Bosnia-Hercegovina, unraveling a cease-fire and drawing a warning from Yugoslavia, which threatened to intervene on behalf of the Serbs.
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A Croatian army assault against Serbs in the Serb-occupied territory of Krajina, Croatia, broke the one-year-old cease-fire.

A March cease-fire between Croatia and Serb rebels dissolved after Bosnian and Croatian Serbs joined forces and launched an attack on the Muslim enclave of Bihac (located across the border from Serb-occupied Krajina) late in the year. Croatia announced that it would enter the Bosnian conflict to support the Muslims.

After launching several offensives to reclaim territory lost to Serb rebels, Croatian forces proclaimed victory in recapturing the Serb-held territory of [|Krajina]. Foreign ministers from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbian-led Yugoslavia endorsed a [|settlement], which guaranteed Bosnia's future existence as an independent state but divided its territory almost equally between two "democratic entities" – a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb-controlled entity. The Dayton [|peace accord] on Bosnia, a U.S.-sponsored settlement, brought general peace to the region.
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Hailed by the West as a step toward lasting peace in Bosnia, top Croatian leaders facilitated the hand over of 10 Bosnian Croats to the [|International Criminal Tribunal]. The group included Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic, 37, one of Bosnia's most notorious war crimes suspects. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/hr.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/timecroatia.htm II. Background: (20 points) a. The topic is about refugees running from their countries because of a crisis in the country b. Many people that are refugees live in refugee camps for the rest of their lives. Most the refugees camps have horrible living conditions that trigger disease and spread epidemics through the camp c. Many refugees live in the camps live in the camps forever and the future generations below them live in the camps too d. historical events of topic on region III. UN Involvement: (25 points) a. http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=153 http://www.amnesty.org/en/refugees-and-migrants b. list of germane committees involved c. The UN held the Refugee Convention which stated rights of refugees d. Amnesty International IV. Country Policy/Possible Solutions: (35 points) = a. European Union Association Agreement  = b. Supports rights of refugees c. Signed the European Union Association Agreement d. Would support a solution regarding rights for refugees e. We would accept all resolutions supporting the rights of refugees