Petition is addressed to: European Commission Vice President Dubravka Suica

We, the people of the Republic of Croatia, citizens of the European Union and concerned global citizens are asking for an immediate public statement on the steps the European Commission is going to take to address serious, systematic violations of human rights in family law cases in Croatia and throughout the European Union.
Vice President Dubravka Suica, as EU Commissioner for Democracy and Demography, your portfolio includes:

• Preparing a comprehensive EU strategy on the rights of the child, including the protection of vulnerable children, protecting children’s rights online, supporting child-friendly justice and embedding the strategy in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and, in this regard, leading the EU’s work in the multilateral context.

On 17 May 2022 your office received a copy of the ANDERSON REPORT on systematic assaults on the Rule of Law and fundamental rights in Croatia during child custody proceedings.
This report contained devastating evidence of human rights violations of adult and children co-victims of domestic abuse in family law cases in Croatia.
The evidence included numerous media reports, including in-depth investigative journalism exposing corruption and institutional abuse in the family law and child protection system in Croatia.
We know that these issues are not confined to Croatia. The same issues are endangering the lives, safety, rights and welfare of adult and child co-victims of domestic abuse throughout the European Union and beyond, as indicated by communications from the United Nations addressed to Spain and to Latin American states, and the 3rd General Report on GREVIO’s activities.
Children are routinely being transferred from their primary carer into the custody of the abusive parent. This includes parents with convictions for violent assault and cases where there has been evidence of incest.
The European Parliament on 6 October 2021 voted overwhelmingly to support a Resolution that lays out clearly that domestic violence is unacceptable and MUST be taken into account when making decisions on child custody.
Despite the Resolution, courts and child protection professionals in Croatia and throughout the EU are still weaponizing dangerous “parental alienation” concepts to suppress allegations, findings and convictions of domestic abuse, to traffic children and criminalise protective parents.
We are shocked to learn that judges hearing family law cases are violating rules of procedure and are violating national and international laws that should protect adult and child co-victims.
Vice President Dubravka Suica, your office received on 20 May 2022 a copy of a letter addressed to EU Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, alerting him to systemic corruption and backsliding in the rule of law in Croatia impacting child custody cases, as well as a complaint against the unlawful response of the Head of Unit for Civil Justice. Systemic corruption and the collapse of the rule of law are not civil law matters.
There is an epidemic of child trafficking in your own country and it is linked to child sexual abuse. We learned that convicted paedophiles, instead of being imprisoned, are being sent into community service in institutions housing children and adults with disabilities. 
As Commissioner with responsibility for child rights in the European Union you are presiding over a catastrophe with children being trafficked into the very situations that inflict on them the greatest harm, that will remain with them for life and cause enormous social costs.
Vice-President Dubravka Šuica: we are alarmed to hear that a Zagreb lawyer who has publicly spoken out about institutional child trafficking in Croatia has received death threats. Activists who have spoken out about institutional paedophilia involving judges and “expert witnesses” have been imprisoned or wrongfully detained in psychiatric institutions.
From this it is clear that the citizens of the Republic of Croatia are powerless to resolve this situation without outside assistance.
As Commissioner with responsibility for child rights in the European Union, it is your duty to take a firm stance and protect the safety, rights and welfare of children.
You must act as Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the protection of children’s rights and as a Croatian citizen — and also in the general interest of the whole European Union.
You have no legal basis in the Treaties and in the Charter to remain silent on the systematic violation of children’s rights in child-related proceedings in Croatia, including cross-border child related proceedings.
The European Commission must act as the Guardian of the Treaties and must protect and support women and children.
The EU’s work concerning children’s rights must be exemplary throughout the world.
Please make a statement on what the Commission intends to do to HALT the trafficking of children into abuse in the European Union – with immediate effect.