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Anzhelika Belova (2019) (PHOTO: Facebook page of Olha Vesnianka)
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.full story
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
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 storyCzech 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
Czech Republic: Autonomous Social Center Klinika is again open to the public, court overturns preliminary injunction
11.7.2016 14:27 The Autonomous Social Center Klinika in Prague opened to the public again on 7 July after several weeks of closure. The Municipal Court in Prague has overturned a preliminary injunction banning the center from operating. full story
Timea Junghaus: Roma art as an act of resistance
27.5.2016 21:27 On May 16, Europe’s Roma commemorated the 1944 uprising in the so-called Zigeunerlager (“Gypsy Camp”) in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Today, the idea of Roma resistance is understood as the Roma people’s perseverance in fighting different forms of oppressions, now and in the past. full story
Czech Police arrest 16 activists from the Autonomous Social Center Klinika, charges being pressed
26.5.2016 6:24 Police intervened Tuesday at the Klinika building on Jeseniova Street in Prague and took a total of 16 activists from the community center there into custody after they refused to obey police instructions to leave the building. The activists are suspected of committing misdemeanors against public order because they refused to cooperate with officials, Prague Police spokesperson Tomáš Hulan posted to the police website. full story
Opponents of Czech President reserve historically significant location to honor the democratic transition this November
18.5.2016 11:47 There is great interest in holding public events in Prague this year on the 17 November state holiday. On the very first day that it was possible to announce such events, Prague City Hall has recorded an enormous number of them, according to spokesperson Vít Hofman. full story
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