Željka Markić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Željka Markić

Croatian activist

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1964

Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia

Profession: physician, translator, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Željka Markić

  • Željka Markic (née Živkovic; born 11 November 1964) is a leader of Croatian civil movement "On Behalf of the Family" (U ime obitelji)She was born in Zagreb, then Yugoslavia, as the oldest of six children.
  • She attended Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb and graduated from School of Medicine at University of Zagreb.She worked as a war reporter during the Croatian War of Independence and later for BBC, NBC and RAI II.
  • She was editor of the Nova TV news programme from 2004 to 2007.
  • She also edited television shows on Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT).
  • Markic was a contributor to Human Right Watch from 1992 to 1994.She is the author of the few documentary films on BBC and Channel 4, such as Guy Smith, Correspondent and Unforgiving and co-director of documentary film Children of War together with Alan Raynolds. She translated works of John Grisham, Antonio A.
  • Borelli and Roy Gutman.She was the first president of the far-right party Croatian Growth and founder of Croatian subsidiary of Mary's Meals organisation. She is one of the key organisers of the 2013 Croatian constitutional referendum for which civic initiative U ime obitelji (In the Name of Family) had collected 749,613 signatures.She is married to physician Tihomir Markic with whom she has four sons.Markic's opposition to LGBT rights has repeatedly drawn criticism in the media.
  • She has opposed Croatia's ratification of the Istanbul Convention on preventing violence against women and domestic violence.
  • She is also pro-life on abortion and euthanasia.

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