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Analyses![]() Romani refugees from Ukraine who have been rendered homeless by the Czech system and are living at the main railway station in Prague - May 2022 (PHOTO: Lukáš Cirok)
Ukrainians are not the same as Syrians: On double standards for refugees, Czech aid, and breaking the rules while doing good16.7.2022 11:28 full story![]() In Czech Republic, the Hungarian passports held by some Romani refugees from Ukraine have not proved to be an advantage17.4.2022 7:45 full story![]() Michal Mižigár: What myths exist about World Roma Day and what is the reality?13.4.2022 14:34 full story![]() Pro-Kremlin fakery and manipulation: What to make of Russian claims of Ukraine's alleged "genocide", Fascism and Nazism?1.3.2022 8:27 full story![]() Czech cardiologist: Drug users have broken health, breathing problems introduced during an arrest can have tragic results25.6.2021 16:50 full story![]() Czech mayor claims all those number 8's in her event have noooothing to do with neo-Nazis23.7.2020 8:07 full story![]() Russia claims to be "concerned" about the very neo-Nazis they support in the Czech Republic9.7.2020 9:36 full story![]() Daniela Abraham: The antigypsyist violence of my childhood is still happening in Central Europe7.6.2020 19:06 When I was 10 years old, living in my home country of Slovakia, I was shot in the left side of my chest by a racist neighbour who on the previous day had shouted at me: "I'm gonna shoot you, you dirty Gypsy!" The racist neighbour shot me with a bb gun while I was walking home from school with my little brother. full story![]() Czech survey finds most people not opposed to inclusion, but children living with disabilities or Romani children raise concerns27.3.2017 17:28 Most people in the Czech Republic (53 %) are not against including children living with disabilities into mainstream classes as long as certain conditions are fulfilled. The groups of people who have extreme opinions about inclusion - whether against it or for it - are smaller. full story![]() Czech Republic pays billions of crowns to nonprofits - who gets most of it?23.3.2017 15:58 According to Czech President Miloš Zeman, nonprofit organizations are "leeches on the state budget", and other Czech politicians are now deciding to ride his wave of criticism of the nonprofit sector or of "political nonprofits". Investigative news server HlídacíPes.org has published a new overview of where the public financing for the nonprofit sector in the Czech Republic actually goes. full story![]() Analysis: The 2016 arson attack on Klinika Social Center - are the Czech Police incompetent, or omniscient?7.3.2017 9:58 How can we recognize the democratic rule of law? In addition to many other factors, equality of all before the law is one sure way. full story![]() Czech NGO working with Roma says state is punishing the poor and motivating them through fear17.2.2017 14:51 From the beginning of February an amendment to the law on aid to those in material distress has been in effect in the Czech Republic. In addition to other matters, the amendment establishesthat the aid provided to those in material distress (the minimum subsistence allowance) shall be reduced by roughly one-third for people who have been unemployed for one year and have not performed at least 20 hours of unremunerated work per month for their local authority's public works department. full story ![]() Analysis: "Inadaptables get free apartments" - the Czech lie that kills17.1.2017 11:50 The resistance of the ANO movement, the Christian Democrats, and the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) in the Czech Republic to social housing is based on fabrications that will have tangible consequences: People dying in the streets and broken families. The freezing temperatures falling to -20 C at night now form the backdrop to the coalition Government's tiffs over the planned law on social housing. full story![]() Czech Republic: Investigation into Romani man's death continues as interethnic gulf widens11.1.2017 7:13 Last fall was marked for thousands of Romani people in the Czech Republic by the mysterious, still-unclarified death of a young man, Miroslav Demeter, in a pizzeria in Žatec. During 20 demonstrations and memorial assemblies around the country and abroad, Romani people took to the streets with the aim of expressing their opinion that the case must be properly investigated. full storyAnalysis: What happened to the Czech social housing law?5.1.2017 10:24 Reporter Saša Uhlová, writing in Deník Referendum, has provided us with a very open description of the state of preparations for the law on social housing in the Czech Republic. A so-called national-level "Social Housing Office" (Úřad pro sociální bydlení) has made it into the law just because local authorities are refusing to administer social housing. full story![]() Karel Holomek on the "social unconscious" and the Roma Spirit Awards18.12.2016 22:04 This year's Roma Spirit Awards had to grapple with a lack of comprehension from an unanticipated party: From Romani people themselves. I have done my best to grasp what has happened and it took me a long time before I understood it. full story![]() Analysis: The German parliamentary elections and refugee policy18.12.2016 17:23 Next year parliamentary and presidential elections will happen in the two most significant Member States of the European Union. While in France the choice of the conservative required two rounds of voting and about four million people ended up choosing the new candidate, the determination of the candidate for the German conservative dual party of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) was a lightning-fast process.full story Analysis: Czech media spread Islamophobic disinformation about court-ordered removal of Virgin Mary statue in France16.12.2016 20:41 During the weekend of 4 December, the Czech News Agency published a news item saying that the French municipality of Publier, located on the intersection of the border with both Italy and Switzerland, must remove a statue of the Virgin Mary from public land on the basis of a decision by an administrative court tribunal in Grenoble. What is the reason for this decision? full story![]() Analysis of Czech-language Internet finds posts about Roma worse than two years ago - 80 % negative11.12.2016 20:19 Romani people are discussed in the Czech language online predominantly in terms of stereotypes, and the voice of the Roma themselves in the virtual space is still proportionately weak. Media attention towards Romani people as a minority was overshadowed during 2015 and 2016 by a shift of focus to Muslims and refugees, but theemotions expressed about the Roma are, at the same time, more negative than they were before. full story |