Commentary

Author raising a Romani child says Czech Public Defender of Rights is racist and evil is slowly winning

11.3.2020 7:42  full story

Lucie Fuková: I am resigning from the Czech Govt Council on Roma Minority Affairs because of how it runs and who is Human Rights Commissioner

23.1.2020 9:51  full story

Jarmila Balážová: Is the boundary of what is excusable being pushed beyond all recognition?

22.1.2020 9:24  full story

Monika Mihaličková: The basis for institutional racism was laid by work of the kind the Czech Human Rights Commissioner did in the 1980s

18.1.2020 10:42  full story

Commentary: Which Czech media outlets can we take seriously?

2.1.2020 9:36  full story

Michal Miko: Czech ministries are boycotting experts' attempts to introduce social housing

29.12.2019 9:28  full story

Květoslava Podhradská: Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution as seen by an ordinary Romani woman

20.11.2019 13:03  full story

Michal Mižigár: What democracy brought us Romani people in the Czech Republic in the 1990s

6.11.2019 5:49  full story

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

18.10.2019 9:18  full story

Commentary: Time for a European Union Army

13.10.2019 15:19  full story

Patrik Banga: Social media is depriving us of context and driving us all crazy

10.10.2019 8:27  full story

Commentary by Czech MEP Zdechovský: Roma need work, not welfare!

24.9.2019 15:33  full story

Tomáš Ščuka: Romani society has unrealistic expectations of the civil society members on the Czech Govt Roma Council

10.9.2019 14:07  full story

Commentary: Romani people should not live in fear, but justice systems are not helping

9.4.2017 14:33 At the beginning of March 2012, after the arson attack was committed against a Romani-occupied residential hotel in Aš, I and other members of the Romea.cz editorial team set out to visit the crime scene. We were unable to find out anything more by being there in person.  full story

Julius Zajac: Ideological extremism is no longer "rising" - it's already here

6.4.2017 15:52 On Wednesday, 22 March, a terrorist attack happened in London, England. On Thursday, 23 March, police thwarted another such attack in Antwerp, Belgium.  full story

Commentary: Paradoxes in the war on political correctness

31.3.2017 21:01 The war against political correctness is a long-term process that was begun in the Czech Republic by ultra-right extremists during the 1990s. Their motive was apparent: They wanted to legitimize racism and xenophobia so their own "politics" would be acceptable to the broadest possible circle of voters.  full story

Commentary: Czech Foreign Minister is all over the map when it comes to the issue of freedom of movement - why?

28.3.2017 11:04 My favorite demagogue, Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek, is once again shining like a supernova in the night sky. He has declared war on the free movement of persons on the labor market inside the European Union.
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Jana Šedivcová: Are all Czech children cat killers and all Romani children flamingo killers? Collective blame is unacceptable

17.3.2017 15:03 When I heard the news that children had killed one rare flamingo and seriously harmed another at the zoo in Jihlava, it made me dizzy. I felt the same when, the next day, a video appeared "on the net" of other children in another town who almost killed a cat by hanging it.  full story

Patrik Banga: I'm for collecting ethnic data in all areas, but the majority can't tell who is Romani

17.3.2017 10:17 Ivan Langr (Greens), Vice-Mayor of Liberec in charge of social affairs, has rebelled against the methodology recommended for estimating the number of Romani people in the regions that he has received from the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. As has already happened here more than once, Langr has sparked a tempestuous
discussion about whether estimating the numbers of Romani people should even happen and if so, what the appropriate method is to use.  full story

Czech Republic: NGO disagrees with court that principal discriminated against Romani preschoolers

11.3.2017 10:45 The Life Together (Vzájemné soužití) organization has issued a statement of support for the principal of the Pěší Primary School in Ostrava-Muglinova which, according to a judgment by the District Court in Ostrava, discriminated against two Romani preschoolers when it refused to enroll them into first grade in 2014. The organization disagrees with the court that principal Kamil Krahula behaved in a discriminatory fashion when making that decision.  full story