Aktivismus

Edita Stejskalová on resigning as a volunteer civil society member of the Czech Govt Roma Council: We should advise ministers, not lower-level officials

9.12.2020 11:13  full story

videoGwendolyn Albert: "I believe the illegally sterilized women will be compensated"

8.10.2020 16:45  full story

Romani activist will seek to become chair of Progressive Slovakia party

16.3.2020 9:06  full story

Newly-elected Slovak MP Jarmila Vaňová: I thank Romani voters for coming out and demanding change

1.3.2020 16:47  full story

Romani competitive dancer Tomáš Kaluja aids non-Romani foster parents of Romani children in Slovakia with understanding ethnic identity

13.2.2020 7:24  full story

Ukraine: Romani activist Anzhelika Belova hospitalized after stabbing, assailant arrested

28.10.2019 16:06  full story

Czech MPs draft bill to compensate women who have been forcibly sterilized

3.10.2019 11:57  full story

Tomáš Ščuka: The strengths and weaknesses of the Brussels demonstration by Romani Europeans

14.8.2019 7:40  full story

videoOrganizer of 8 July protest by Romani people in Brussels is corrected by incoming MEP - "I've never spoken with him"

30.6.2019 14:21  full story

Miroslav Kováč, former chair of the Equal Opportunities Party in the Czech Republic, has passed away after a long illness

4.5.2019 8:04  full story

Slovakia has elected its first female President - Čaputová thanks voters in Romanes again

31.3.2019 10:59  full story

video LIVE BROADCAST TUESDAY 26 MARCH: Council of Europe holds the 7th International Roma Women's Conference

25.3.2019 18:15  full story

Ian Hancock, Romani linguist at the University of Texas, has been awarded an OBE

4.1.2019 8:30  full story

Czech court rules activists did not enrich themselves by using abandoned building, state may go to Supreme Court

22.6.2018 10:32 The Autonomous Social Center "Klinika" and its representative, Tereza Virtová, do not have to pay the state CZK 360 000 [EUR 14 000] for using real estate in Prague 3 during 2016 for several months without authorization. On 20 June the appeals venue, the Prague Municipal Court, upheld the previous verdict from the first-instance District Court, which rejected a lawsuit filed by the state and found that no "unjust enrichment" had occurred.  full story

Canada grants asylum to former MEP who faced death threats in Hungary due to her Romani origin

16.5.2018 17:53 Viktória Mohácsi, a Romani activist and former MEP from Hungary, has finally been awarded political asylum in Canada. She requested asylum in 2012 after seeking police protection over death threats she received upon returning to Hungary when her EP mandate was over.
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videoMuseum of the Romani National Revival to open with "A Century of Roma in Czechoslovakia" exhibit

15.5.2018 9:21 On Thursday, 10 May an informal gathering of selected Romani figures was held at the Divadlo v Korunní theater in Prague by the newly-established Museum of the Romani National Revival. The Museum has been established by Emil Ščuka, who was previously part of the birth of the Roma Civic Initiative (ROI) in the 1990s and became its first chair.  full story

ROMEA has been with you all for 15 years

1.1.2018 17:08 2003  full story

Czech Republic: ROMEA organization is a recipient of the Anticorruption Endowment's award for bravery

12.12.2017 10:16 The Anticorruption Endowment (Nadační fond proti korupci - NFPK) in the Czech Republic has given its awards for bravery this year to the ROMEA organization, to activist Jakub Čech, and to the former director of the Quality Control Department of the Road and Motorway Directorate. This award is given to people who are not afraid to point out the existence of corruption or other negative phenomena in society irrespective of the consequences for them personally.  full story

Czech Republic: Benefit concert for Romani child who survived antigypsyist arson in 2009

10.12.2017 13:43 On Friday, 15 December a benefit concert will be held in Prague's Studio ALTA club for Natálka Kudriková, the Romani girl who survived a racist arson attack more than eight years ago with life-threatening third-degree and fourth-degree burns over 80 % of her body. The attack was perpetrated in the late night hours of 18 April and early morning hours of 19 April 2009 in the town of Vítkov (Opava district).  full story

Czech firm able to negotiate sale of pig farm on Roma genocide site for first time

31.7.2017 15:40 Czech Radio's Radiožurnál station reports that the AGPI agricultural company has held its general meeting and agreed to transfer the pig farm at Lety to the Czech state. The board will now be entrusted with negotiating the price and other conditions of the sale with the state.  full story