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Romani doctor in Czech Republic will get vaccinated and is disturbed by COVID-19 disinformation 23.1.2021 10:36 Jakub Jarý (PHOTO: Petr Zewlakk Vrabec) Jakub Jarý, a doctor in the Infectious Diseases Department of Masaryk Hospital in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic who is also a member of the Romani community, has given an online interview to ROMEA TV. As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, his profession is among the most necessary to society. Along with other physicians, Jarý examines dozens of people suspected of having COVID-19 every day. He has been providing aid on ...

Romea.cz Romani people in the Czech Republic complain to retailers of security guards stalking them when they shop 20.1.2021 14:08 Monika Mihaličková (PHOTO: ROMEA TV) Security guards in several retail chains reportedly specialize in keeping track of visibly Romani customers. Being closely followed all over a shop is undignified and unpleasant for such customers and has been experienced by Romani community members such as the journalist Patrik Banga, former Czech MP Monika Mihaličková, chair of the Khamoro association Emil Voráč, and others - and Romani people who work as security guar...

  Lucie Lucassen, Romani community member in the Czech Republic, plans to adopt a Romani orphan - like she once was herself 19.1.2021 9:09 Lucie Lucassen (PHOTO: Personal archive of Lucie Lucassen) She was raised by foster parents and did not want to acknowledge her Romani heritage for a long time,but when Lucie Lucassen began working for one of the biggest Romani nonprofit organizations in the Czech Republic and got to know other Romani community members up close, she came to grips with her own identity and began to take an interest in the history of the Romani people. "I have not been ...

Romea.cz 19.1.2021 12:05 Stanislav Křeček in a report broadcast by the Prima TV station in February 2016 (PHOTO: TV Prima). Stanislav Křeček, the Public Defender of Rights (ombudsman) in the Czech Republic, published the full wording of his comments on the Czech Government's draft Roma Strategy for 2021-2030 last week after nonprofit organizations criticized a press release issued by his office about the Strategy. Unlike his official press release, his full comments once again make light of discrimination against Romani people, above all in the housing sector, and criticize the Strateg...

Romea.cz Volunteer civil society members of Czech Govt Roma Council: ombudsman intentionally undermining the dignity of Romani people 19.1.2021 15:31 Czech ombudsman Stanislav Křeček (left) and chair of the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust, Čeněk Růžička (right - photographed during a previous session of the Czech Government Council for Romani Minority Affairs). (Collage: Romea.cz) Several volunteer civil society members of the Czech Government Council for Romani Minority Affairs issued a statement yesterday criticizing the current Public Defender of Rights (ombudsman...