Czech Republic

Czech Pirates criticize Govt report on education of Romani children for not reflecting COVID-19 impact and lack of access to distance learning

5.1.2021 9:23  full story

The other Czech pandemic: Disinformation about anti-COVID vaccination. Romea.cz refutes the most frequent hoaxes and manipulations

30.12.2020 12:18  full story

Fundraiser underway in Czech Republic for Romani taxi driver who was one of the country's first serious COVID-19 patients

29.12.2020 15:18  full story

Romani parody of "telenovelas" breaking viewership records on Czech Internet, picked up by cable TV

29.12.2020 9:30  full story

During Czech COVID-19 pandemic, NGO distributes more than 80 laptops to Romani students for distance learning

28.12.2020 15:13  full story

Once persecuted, the Salesians have run programs unlike any others for Romani children for 30 years in third-largest Czech city

28.12.2020 9:11  full story

Romani community members debate the Czech Govt Strategy on Roma for 2021-2030

27.12.2020 13:31  full story

Czech racists hated Vodafone Christmas ad featuring non-white children, the company objects to their online comments

26.12.2020 10:44  full story

Scandalous fourth acquittal by Czech court of racist football fans accused of assaulting Black man on tram

23.12.2020 9:48  full story

Czech court gives suspended sentence to adults who assaulted young Romani children physically and verbally in a park last year

23.12.2020 8:49  full story

Czech expert says haters' attention is fixating on Roma again, "migration" as a subject is over

2.12.2019 8:01  full story

Czech lower house will not discuss accepting unaccompanied minor refugees - ANO, Communists, SocDems and ultra-nationalists opposed it

1.12.2019 10:12  full story

Czech Government Agency for Social Inclusion publishes analysis of segregation in primary schools

30.11.2019 7:07  full story

Czech fan of ultra-nationalist party gets suspended sentence for wearing Nazi symbols to demonstration

25.11.2019 5:40  full story

The Romani Uprising in Auschwitz, 16 May 1944

16.5.2019 9:01 On 16 May 1944, in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, something completely extraordinary occurred: Romani people imprisoned in the so-called "Gypsy Camp" there rebelled against the SS. This historical event is still almost unknown in the Czech Republic, but 16 May is becoming more and more popular worldwide as Romani Resistance Day.  full story

The Romani Uprising in Auschwitz, 16 May 1944

16.5.2018 0:01 On 16 May 1944, in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, something completely extraordinary occurred: Romani people imprisoned in the so-called "Gypsy Camp" there rebelled against the SS. This historical event is still almost unknown in the Czech Republic, but 16 May is becoming more and more popular worldwide as Romani Resistance Day.  full story

Roma and Sinti Genocide Survivors, Descendants and Scholars Unite in Prague

26.9.2017 10:30 Roma and Sinti Genocide Survivors, Descendants and Scholars Unite in Prague By Clare Profous.  full story

The Romani Uprising in Auschwitz, 16 May 1944

16.5.2017 0:01 On 16 May 1944, in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, something completely extraordinary occurred: Romani people imprisoned in the so-called "Gypsy Camp" there rebelled against the SS. This historical event is still almost unknown in the Czech Republic, but 16 May is becoming more and more popular worldwide as Romani Resistance Day.  full story

Czech Police liaisons to minority communities and Regional Coordinators for Romani Affairs discuss collaborating

9.4.2017 16:22 The Czech Interior Ministry, in cooperation with the Office of the Czech Government Council for Romani Minority Affairs, recently held a three-day working meeting between Czech Police liaisons to minority communities, Regional Coordinators for Romani Affairs, and Regional Crime Prevention Managers. The aim of the meeting was to assess the existing ways in which these three kinds of officials collaborate, to present examples of good practice in the area of cooperation at regional level, to present their plans for activity this year and, through discussions, to state proposals and recommendations for intensifying cooperation among these partners.  full story

Czech Republic: Prestigious literary award goes to book some commentators and Romani people find offensive

9.4.2017 15:27 The 16th annual Magnesia Litera book award announced its winners last week. In the newly-revived category for journalism, the award has been given to the book called BRNOX, a guidebook to the neighborhood in Brno nicknamed the "Bronx" that purports to be about that socially excluded locality.  full story