Features and Commentary

"Rukeli", or Prisoner Number 9841: Boxing champion Johann Trollmann was yet another victim of forced sterilization and racialization

18.9.2022 14:36  full story

Jarmila Balážová: Petr Uhl stood up for Romani people many times

3.12.2021 8:53  full story

Analysis: Welfare abuse in the Czech Republic is minimal, but in the runup to elections, politicians talk tough about it

28.7.2021 6:47  full story

Commentary: Bias-motivated violence targets identity and includes the bullying or distrust many in the Czech Republic consider normal

21.7.2021 11:51  full story

New Czech political movement uses the old campaign trick of alleging "inadaptables" abuse welfare, names the Romani community as an example

20.6.2021 7:20  full story

"Your father is in the COVID-19 wing". A true story.

30.4.2021 7:57  full story

Czech actors send greetings to Romani people for 8 April, World Roma Day

8.4.2021 12:10  full story

Marcel Courthiade, linguist who dedicated himself to the emancipation of Roma and their language, has passed away

9.3.2021 5:55  full story

February marks the 62nd anniversary of communist Czechoslovakia forcibly sedentarizing Romani people

5.2.2021 10:08  full story

Memory of the Roma: Mária Lendelová speaks about her life

3.2.2021 9:32  full story

Alena Gronzíková: Czech landlords will not rent to Roma even with good references and steady incomes

28.1.2021 13:56  full story

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  full story

Older Romani woman recounts how security guards in Czech shop saved her from violent racist thug

16.12.2020 10:28  full story

Commentary: Senator infamous for antigypsyist remarks about the "cikánská question" joins regional party in the Czech Republic

8.12.2020 7:39  full story

Commentary: Czech Social Democrats sink to the level of ultra-nationalists with proposal to cut funding to NGOs working with minorities

7.12.2020 8:54  full story

COMMENTARY: Czech TV show portrays Roma as nothing but criminals

5.12.2020 8:15  full story

videoPetra Gelbart: Czech media invite the wrong experts to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic

23.11.2020 7:43  full story

Romani musician in Czech Republic regrets believing COVID-19 was fake now that he's had it

22.10.2020 16:18  full story

Karel Holomek: New name of memorial at Hodonín u Kunštátu does not reflect the fact of the Romani genocide

29.3.2017 11:58 On 16 March, the daily Právo published an article about transferring responsibility for the "memorial to Romani suffering during the Second World War" to the management of the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno. The memorial commemorates the camp at Hodonín u Kunštát where predominantly Romani people who were living in Moravia at that time - 1 400 of them - were imprisoned from mid-1942 until the end of 1943.  full story

Testimonies of survivors of the Nazi-era concentration camp for Roma at Lety in Czech Republic still not discussed

27.3.2017 7:53 On 15 March 1939, Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler proclaimed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in those regions of occupied Czechoslovakia. His representatives
proceeded to violate the provisions of the Czechoslovak Constitution concerning human rights for the duration of the Protectorate and, in addition to imposing binding,
discriminatory regulations targeting Jews, the Protectorate Government, led by Rudolf Beran under the direction of Nazi Germany, also targeted persons living on the fringes of society.  full story