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Slovak NGOs call on Government to stop discriminating against Romani people in the context of testing for COVID-19 and closing settlements

9.4.2020 16:43  full story

videoKHAMORO World Romani Festival marks International Romani Day with online anthem performance

8.4.2020 19:07  full story

European Roma Grassroots Organisations network to European Commission: Member States don't find discrimination a priority

6.4.2020 12:21  full story

NGOs call on new Slovak Government to end the segregation of Romani children in education

29.3.2020 11:21  full story

Romani people from different Czech towns have joined the face mask sewing effort

19.3.2020 18:23  full story

Czech socially excluded localities see limited services due to COVID-19, nonprofit staffers lack protective gear

18.3.2020 16:06  full story

Jan Balog: Romani nonprofits in Prague will meet to discuss dissatisfaction with Czech Govt Council for Roma Minority Affairs

11.2.2020 7:12  full story

Czech PM says Government will not change the financing conditions for nonprofits drawing EU money

6.10.2019 10:54  full story

Czech Finance Ministry proposes all EU financing for social projects be provided ex-post, which could cut nonprofits off from those resources

18.8.2019 10:57  full story

Czech Constitutional Court: Human rights defender has to count on "frustrated" people sending her death threats

21.6.2019 10:49  full story

Czech Human Rights Commissioner: Human rights not considered important enough, critique of nonprofits is problematic

10.12.2018 6:45  full story

Michal Miko: Amendment to education decree violates the Romani Integration Strategy, Czech state obliged to implement inclusion

7.12.2018 12:31  full story

Czech and international nonprofits protest amendment to decree on education

6.12.2018 20:36  full story

Nonprofits and unions call on Czech PM to put forward social housing law

2.11.2018 10:14 Nonprofit organizations and unions have sent an open letter to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš calling on his Government to produce a law on social housing. The Government pledged to do in its program declaration.  full story

Czech state funding for nonprofits goes mostly to social policy and sports

29.4.2018 12:21 The Czech nonprofit organization to receive the greatest proportion of subsidies from the state budget during 2016 was, as it has traditionally been, the Football Association of the Czech Republic, which received CZK 375 900 000 [EUR 15 million]. Tens of millions more crowns in taxpayer money are also given to footballers through separate subsidies at the regional and municipal levels.  full story

Czech MP wants to close nonprofits, Romani psychology student diagnoses him

15.12.2017 6:39 As a young child I used to dream that one day a phase would arise in human society where the main priority would be empathy, love and peace. Unfortunately, I am 21 years old now and nothing of the sort has come to pass yet.  full story

videoRomani psychology student who is a ROMEA scholarship winner featured on Czech Television

8.9.2017 9:30 "Our parents never went to college, but I was told I would go to college by them at home from an early age," Roman Koky, a Romani student of psychology, says in a reportage produced by the "168 Hours" program on public broadcaster Czech Television. Along with his brother Michal, who is studying pharmacy, Roman Koky has attended a recent "Baruvas" ("We Are Growing") meeting of Romani high school and college scholarship recipients.
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Head of Czech development aid organization notices situation in Romani ghettos all but unchanged

28.7.2017 9:21 "Always, naturally, somebody can be found who doesn't care for this part of our work. Even in that aspect, however, the situation is changing. Previously the absolute majority of people had a simplified reaction: 'Why, for God's sake, are you aiding the gypsies? It would be better to go to Africa to aid the black people.' Today most people comprehend that this is a problem that must be solved," said Šimon Pánek, a former student leader of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution who is director of the People in Need development organization in an interview for news server Deník.cz marking its 25th anniversary.  full story

videoTimea Junghaus for Romea.cz: Romani artists have the potential to create an innovative Romani identity

28.6.2017 10:30 At the beginning of June the grand opening of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) was held in Berlin. News server Romea.cz broadcast the press conference live and filmed this brief interview with its Executive Director, the historian Timea Junghaus, who has aided with the creation of the institute, among other matters.  full story

Czech Finance Ministry raises annual limit above which nonprofits must report sales, local government association still unsatisfied

19.5.2017 10:12 The Czech Finance Ministry has increased the limit of turnover above which associations and nonprofit organizations must report their incomes from minor side business activities to CZK 300 000 [EUR 11 000] annually. Previously the limit above which such groups had to report was CZK 175 000 [EUR 6 600] annually.  full story