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Romea.cz   Terezín Initiative in Czech Republic does not want Romani names included in Shoah commemoration, director of its Institute disagrees 3.4.2021 18:52 The Yom Hashoah event, held throughout the Czech Republic, has involved people publicly reading the names of the Jewish and Romani victims of the Nazi concentration camps since 2010. (PHOTO: Romea.cz) The board of directors of the Institute of the Terezín Initiative (ITI) in the Czech Republic has decided that this years commemorative...

  Czech lower house has approved moratorium on collections agents confiscating property in peoples homes due to COVID-19 1.4.2021 6:13 Collections proceedings in the Czech Republic. (Collage: Romea.cz) Despite the fact that the state of emergency in the Czech Republic has been ongoing and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has been seeking an extension of the law authorizing the state of emergency from Parliament, it was not until 24 March that the Chamber of Deputies re-approved a previous ...

Romea.cz   Czech TV finds MP is still a landlord trafficking in poverty, overcharging Romani tenants for squalid properties who have nowhere else to go 17.3.2021 10:07 Lubomír Volný (2021) (PHOTO: Czech Television, "168 hodin") Czech MP Lubomír Volný is continuing to make money on the most impoverished Romani residents of the excluded locality in Ostrava-Přívoz where he owns two buildings that he is neglecting. Currently he has been drawing attention to himself by refusing to follow th...

  Brand-new Czech Chief Public Health Officer has a history of anti-Romani racism in her previous public communications about COVID-19 5.3.2021 8:50 A printscreen of the Facebook post from October 2020 by Pavla Svrčinová, who was appointed Chief Public Health Officer of the Czech Republic in March 2021. It reads: "Fero Lakatoš robbed his own apartment today. He is following the quarantine rules and working from home. Be like Fero." The Czech News Agency has reported that the new Chief ...

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Romea.cz 6.3.2021 6:22 Pavla Svrčinová and the joke she shared to her Facebook profile. The text reads "Fero Lakatoš robbed his own apartment today. Fero is following quarantine rules and working from home. Be like Fero." (Collage: Romea.cz) Pavla Svrčinová, who has been tapped to take up the role of Chief Public Health Officer in the Czech Republic, has apologized to Romani people for sharing a racist joke featuring Romani stereotypes on her Facebook profile. She was contacted by Czech...

Romea.cz   Romani organizations write to Czech Industry and Trade Minister: Roma must be part of the National Plan for Renewal 1.3.2021 9:33 Czech Industry and Trade Minister Karel Havlíček (PHOTO: David Sedlecký, Wikimedia Commons) Representatives of Romani civil society have sent an open letter to Czech Industry and Trade Minister Karel Havlíček; news server Romea.cz is publishing it in full translation below. The letter asks the minister to provide information about its National Pla...

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Romea.cz   Czech court fines man for setting rainbow flag on fire, stays silent on homophobic motivation; he says it wasnt him and appeals 24.2.2021 8:43 The rainbow flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) pride and LGBTQ social movements. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBTQ community, as the flag is often used as a symbol of gay pride during LGBTQ rights marches. While this use of the rainbow flag originated in San Francisco, California, USA, it is...

Romea.cz 23.2.2021 8:04 Agáta Berková (FOTO: https://divemaky.sk/) News server Dobrénoviny.sk reports 11-year-old chess player Agáta Berková is achieving unprecedented success in competition and has even played Russian chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov to a draw after being trained by her father who, along with his chess team called " Hrochotskské jezdci" ("The Hrochoť Riders"), has broken the stereotypical belief that Roma cannot play chess. Berková is a native of the Slovak town of P...