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Edita Stejskalová (PHOTO: Still from the documentary film Europe: Which Children Matter?)
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
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.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