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Romea.cz 22.2.2021 6:44 Marta Smolíková (PHOTO: Mezipatra) According to the director of the Open Society (Otevřená společnost) organization, Marta Smolíková, the Czech Public Defender of Rights (ombudsman), Stanislav Křeček, should resign for refusing to acknowledge the existence of discrimination against Romani people. She told him so on a program broadcast by the Proglas 13+ radio station.  An open letter signed by representatives of organizations that promote human rights, people facing adversity and the Romani minority called on Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) and me...

Czech organizations insist the lower house and Prime Minister reject the anti-Romani remarks of the ombudsman 17.2.2021 7:14 Stanislav Křeček in a report broadcast by the Prima TV station in February 2016 (PHOTO: TV Prima). Representatives of Czech organizations working to promote human rights, people facing adversity and the Romani minority have called on Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) and members of the lower house to distance themselves from the remarks of the Czech Public Defender of Rights (the ombudsman), Stanislav Křeček, about Romani people. In their view, the ombudsma...

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Romea.cz 8.2.2021 9:44 The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (PHOTO: Czech Television) An amendment to the law on aid to those in material distress currently awaiting a second reading in the Czech lower house does not respect the fundamental principles and rights that such welfare benefits are meant to guarantee, according to some of the volunteer civil society members of the Czech Government Council on Romani Minority Affairs. Romani community members and others on the Council point out that during the last six years, seven such amendments to the law on aid to tho...

Czech nonprofits find schools not in touch with one-fifth of disadvantaged parents surveyed 7.2.2021 14:40 (PHOTO: People in Need, Czech Republic - Člověk v tísni) Of the children living in social disadvantage today in the Czech Republic, one-fifth of their parents are not in contact with their children's schools about the current distance learning that is underway. That fact has been demonstrated by a questionnaire survey conducted by the People in Need ( Člověk v tísni) organization and 15 other nonprofits in the country.   The findings also reveal that more than one-fourth of such ...