Czech Republic

European experts say hatred online endangers democracy, nonprofits are monitoring social media response to it

28.10.2019 14:31  full story

Czech Government Agency for Social Inclusion objects to disinformation published about its proposals for infamous housing estate

21.10.2019 7:10  full story

Czech President Havel protested against the wall separating non-Roma from Roma on Matiční Street 20 years ago

19.10.2019 10:14  full story

Czech MPs pass over ultra-right party's candidate for Czech News Agency board in favor of Pirates' pick

18.10.2019 15:47  full story

Pavel Botoš: Who will stop the use of terms like "cigoši" in the Czech Republic?

18.10.2019 9:18  full story

Iveta Bílková: Czech society should not tolerate words like "Cigán", "Cigoši", etc.

18.10.2019 8:14  full story

Romani community member Jozef Facuna has passed away in the Czech Republic

18.10.2019 7:22  full story

Roma are most frequently targeted by hatred on the Czech Internet, experts say the law applies online too

16.10.2019 17:44  full story

Documentary film LETY captures the despair and the hopes of those who fought to remove the industrial pig farm from the site of the former concentration camp for Roma

16.10.2019 5:59  full story

Czech Republic's Museum of Romani Culture announces competition to design the memorial at the site of the former concentration camp for Romani people at Lety

15.10.2019 8:12  full story

Czech Govt report on the state of the Romani minority estimates 830 ghettos with 127 000 inhabitants in the regions

15.10.2019 6:50  full story

Czech politician who relies on hatred ties himself in knots over the ultra-right terrorism in Germany

13.10.2019 16:59  full story

Romani community member Cyril Koky will run for Czech Senate as a Pirate in the Kolín precinct

12.10.2019 10:38  full story

Czech politician misquotes meeting with Romani residents of at-risk housing estate, they correct the record

12.10.2019 9:38  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