Kristina Dienstbierová

Czech restaurant chain apologizes to Romani musician for refusal of service

14.6.2019 9:06  full story

Winner of Czech-Slovak singing competition "The Voice" subjected to racist attacks online

3.6.2019 12:34  full story

Hungary: Radicals protest "Romani crime", Romani people and their allies stand up to them

23.5.2019 16:28  full story

Slovak President-elect says a single court decision cannot solve the problem of extremism and Fascism

5.5.2019 10:12  full story

videoVIDEO: Romani performer Věra Bílá is back with singer Jan Bendig and bandleader Milan Kroka

1.3.2019 11:17  full story

Czech MP dresses down her committee members for treating institutionalized infants like animals in a zoo

27.2.2019 12:27  full story

videoCzech Health and Labor ministers visit infamous housing estate with MPs

21.2.2019 15:49  full story

Roma testimonies recall their families' Holocaust suffering

1.2.2019 14:47  full story

Czech Govt Agency for Social Inclusion does not support housing benefit-free zones in Liberec

15.1.2019 12:42  full story

Czech courts convict two people for racist online hate speech about newborn, three more are under investigation

15.1.2019 9:49  full story

European Court of Human Rights: Slovakia did not sufficiently investigate racial motivation of shooting six years ago

19.12.2018 9:10  full story

Romani activist Elena Gorolová is one of 100 Inspiring Women on the BBC's list for 2018

20.11.2018 19:42  full story

Czech Constitutional Court to review controversial local ordinance about sitting in public

19.11.2018 7:30  full story

Czech ultra-right extremists plan to commemorate 10th anniversary of their attempted pogrom on Romani people

15.11.2018 19:53  full story

videoSixty years ago the "law on the permanent settlement of itinerant persons" was adopted in Czechoslovakia

15.11.2018 7:58  full story

Czech President's erroneous remarks about school inclusion criticized by experts

31.10.2018 8:13 Speaking at the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, 23 October, Czech President Zeman expressed his support for the Government's draft budget, but not unequivocally. He repeatedly criticized what he characterized as "high" expenditures involved with inclusion in the schools, during which he presented incorrect, misleading "data".  full story

Czechoslovakia launched the forced resettlement of Romani people 53 years ago

14.10.2018 7:19 Fifty-three years ago, communist Czechoslovakia adopted a resolution that began one of its many failed social experiments implemented as part of attempts to assimilate Romani people, the so-called "policy of organized dispersion". The aim of Resolution No. 502, dated 13 October 1965, was meant to be, above all, the "destruction of undesirable concentrations of the gypsy population", i.e., primarily settlements in eastern Slovakia, but also those housing developments or steets in industrial cities where mostly Romani people lived.  full story

Czech school targeted with hate over its non-white first-graders last year receives donation of laptop computers

28.9.2018 13:15 The CZ.NIC firm has donated 24 new laptop computers to pupils attending the Plynárenská Primary School in Teplice, Czech Republic, a gift worth almost CZK 400 000 [EUR 16 000] made in response to last year's wave of hate speech about a photograph of the school's first-grade class published by the local daily Teplický deník. News server Romea.cz has previously reported about the case here.  full story

Slovak PM on Romani settlements: Incentivize employment, no tolerance for disorder

24.9.2018 7:48 News server WebNoviny.sk has reported that at last week's cabinet session in the town of Svidník, Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini said he does not intend to tolerate disorder in the country's Romani-inhabited settlements. The PM is demanding proposals from cabinet ministers on how to ensure security and uphold order and what he called "decent behavior" in the settlements.  full story

Czech PM meets with forced sterilization victims and their representatives about compensation

3.9.2018 15:41 A press release from the Czech human rights organization League of Human Rights reports that on Tuesday, 21 August, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš met with the victims of forced sterilization who have been attempting to reopen the subject of compensation for their illegal treatment. The PM expressed support for their efforts and has tasked Czech Justice Minister Jan Kněžínek with negotiating the matter further.  full story