Interviews

Romani educator at school serving infamous Czech housing estate wouldn't want to work anywhere else

24.9.2019 13:38  full story

Romani college prep student in Czech Republic and ROMEA scholarship recipient hopes to become a dentist someday

2.9.2019 7:33  full story

VIDEO: Holocaust survivor from Germany's Sinti community, Rita Prigmore, warns it could happen again

26.8.2019 9:42  full story

Pirate Party partners with Romani residents to attempt improvement of infamous Czech housing estate

25.8.2019 9:20  full story

Magdalena Karvayová: Parents in the ghettos need to see education offers their children a future

23.7.2019 17:44  full story

videoEdita Stejskalová: Czech PM has decided not to establish the post of Commissioner for Romani Affairs

2.7.2019 16:41  full story

Romani student at Czech college prep school learns about Romani history through BARUVAS student meetings

16.6.2019 11:14  full story

Interview: Patriotism is not the same as hating those who are different

31.5.2019 12:07  full story

Lawyer on groundbreaking Czech court finding: Courts must consider hate crime victims' perspectives now

11.5.2019 13:47  full story

videoMEP of Romani origin Soraya Post asks ROMEA TV: How can Czech President Zeman be so stupid?

22.3.2019 9:31  full story

Monika Kokyová on MasterChef: I want to show my ideas

22.2.2019 7:43  full story

Top Czech YouTuber doing media literacy education for hundreds of thousands was inspired by John Oliver

14.2.2019 9:11  full story

Karel Karika: Czech PM's party avoiding coalition with winning local movement is a "mega-dirty trick"

18.12.2018 8:46  full story

videoCzech amendment to school regulations is a step backward, actual needs of children to be ignored

5.12.2018 12:48  full story

Romani community member Olga Halušková has been guiding visitors through Czech castle Karlštejn for more than a decade

24.11.2018 11:27  full story

Czech principal says politicians forgot about her school after death threats were made against it last year

20.11.2018 7:32  full story

Czech Constitutional Court receives complaint about election campaign, proposals for "fertilization" of "gypsies" recur in local media discussion

12.11.2018 11:00  full story

Jana Horváthová: Affirmative action and inclusion will solve the situation of Roma in the Czech Republic

8.11.2018 8:59 "I was always crouching somewhere out of sight so nobody would start talking about 'gypsies', or about the Holomeks, so that nobody would discover my roots. I was faint-hearted, mixed up. Once I accepted my Romani identity, if was as if I could suddenly stand up straight. All of a sudden you can breathe freely, without constantly anticipating that somebody is about to cause you harm. You begin to live in a better way - although I do not always openly tell people that I am a Romani woman," Jana Horváthová, the director of the Museum of Romani Culture who is an ethnographer, historian, and museologist, says in an extensive interview for Vlasta magazine (issue number 44/2018).  full story

Monika Mihaličková: Czech President should take a look in the mirror and give himself a slap - "gypsy" is an insulting term

7.11.2018 15:59 "I do not perceive myself to be an elite Romani person," says Monika Mihaličková in an interview with the journalist Jindřich Šídlo for news server Seznam. The former MP in the Czech Chamber of Deputies is currently working for the ROMEA organization on a program that supports Romani students.  full story

Local Romani assembly member in Czech town seeks re-election, recommends running to others

29.9.2018 12:23 Citizens of the Czech Republic will vote for new local assembly members next weekend (5 and 6 October 2018). News server Romea.cz has learned that at least 170 Romani candidates are running locally this year and, if elected, will be able to change the hand that is dealt at the city or municipal level.  full story