Vojtěch Lavička

Czech court orders director of housing corporation to apologize to Romani community member for abusive remarks

16.4.2021 6:41  full story

Vojtěch Lavička: Czech TV show featuring Romani guys in drag is low "humor" of the fifth-rate category

13.4.2021 7:13  full story

Czech bodybuilder's fine upheld for approving of Romani man's murder, he says he will appeal again

7.4.2021 7:23  full story

Czech 2021 Census: Video instructions for the online form available until 9 April, answers to basic questions

2.4.2021 6:01  full story

Czech parliamentary committee overwhelmingly supports bill to compensate forcibly sterilized women

31.3.2021 17:18  full story

American author Paul Polansky has passed away

26.3.2021 11:49  full story

Czech footballer Ondřej Kúdela, centre-back for Slavia Prague, accused of racism in Glasgow

22.3.2021 7:07  full story

Czech "Minute of Silence" will honor COVID-19 victims on Monday at noon - every 7 minutes, 5 seconds another person is dying of the virus here

20.3.2021 16:58  full story

Romani organizations write to Czech Industry and Trade Minister: Roma must be part of the National Plan for Renewal

1.3.2021 9:33  full story

Czech NGO director tells ombudsman he should resign for refusing to acknowledge discrimination against Roma

22.2.2021 6:44  full story

Czech court hears defamation case against man who insulted a member of the Govt's Roma Council in the media

16.2.2021 7:06  full story

Jan Dužda: Vaccination is the most effective weapon against COVID-19, Czech authorities need to campaign about its effects and importance

12.2.2021 9:34  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

Slovak quarantine measures in Romani settlement are over, police and soldiers no longer on guard there

30.12.2020 9:14  full story

EU Commissioner for Values: EU money is meant to help the Roma too, data collection is important so we aren't flying blind

18.12.2020 8:06  full story

Czech ultra-right disrupts theater performance, director says it reminds him of the rise of Fascism in the 20th century

29.5.2018 11:15 The Czech News Agency reports that some 30 members of the self-described "Decent People" ("Slušní lidé") movement disrupted Saturday's performance of a play called "Our Violence and Your Violence" in the city of Brno, Czech Republic. Shortly after the performance began the disruptors took over the stage, forming a human chain to prevent the actors from continuing.  full story

Czech commemoration of Holocaust at Terezín Memorial will again not feature the Romani flag

18.5.2018 17:58 The traditional commemorative ceremony held by the Terezín Memorial will be held on Sunday at the National Cemetery in front of the Small Fortress, and several Romani activists will again have a bitter taste in their mouths about it. On the basis of an initiative by the Konexe association two years ago, 14 pro-Roma and Roma nonprofit organizations including ARA ART, ROMEA and Slovo 21 pointed out that the Romani flag is not flown at the memorial during the annual commemoration ceremony alongside the flags of the other nations whose members fell victim to Nazi persecution.  full story

videoMichal Miko to the Czech Regional Development Minister: Live in a container yourself, then we will see what you think of it

21.4.2018 11:51 The proposal of the Czech Regional Development Minister to build 55 000 "container" units of housing has outraged various civic activists. Michal Miko, project coordinator for the Slovo 21, z.s. NGO, has taken an unequivocally negative stance on the issue: "The fact that the Government wants to adopt a law making it possible to build 'container' apartment units is unacceptable to me as a civic activist."  full story

Traffickers in poverty in the Czech Republic have a new trick for not losing their profitable business model

14.4.2018 20:34 Real estate speculators in the Czech Republic who charge high rents for dilapidated apartment units in socially excluded localities do not intend to lose their profitable "enterprises". They are selling apartment units in places where local councils have decided not to disburse housing benefits to their impoverished tenants and are buying other units in localities where the state housing benefit is not limited.  full story

Controversial Czech housing estate in the hands of foreign nationals: Russians big fans of trafficking in poverty there

30.3.2018 12:45 Buying cheap arpartment units at the Janov housing estate has become a lucrative new enterprise for many foreign nationals. Israelis, Russians, Slovaks and Ukrainians, according to news server Seznam.cz, own more than one-third of the units in some apartment buildings there.  full story