Sociální vyloučení

Czech Republic: Romani-occupied residential hotel catches fire, young family loses everything, 12 suffer smoke inhalation

23.11.2019 14:51  full story

Czech kickboxer of Romani origin wins gold in Sarajevo

29.10.2019 9:52  full story

Czech city declares its entire territory a ghetto for harsh housing benefit restrictions - which don't deliver

2.10.2019 9:14  full story

Czech city synonymous with ethnic segregation sets up "Committee to Map and Eliminate Negative Social Phenomena"

29.9.2019 9:16  full story

Slovak bus company caught on video repeatedly denying some Romani passengers service

19.9.2019 7:24  full story

Czech Government decides today on moving Agency for Social Inclusion to the Regional Development Ministry

22.7.2019 9:57  full story

Czech institute says city's hope of state investment into "container" housing may be in vain

21.7.2019 14:52  full story

Czech research finds that majority must change its approach to Romani people in order to improve the situation in the schools

28.6.2019 6:04  full story

Czech towns hire Romani community members as police assistants

10.6.2019 6:02  full story

Czech Govt will not draft social housing law or anti-poverty measures

18.2.2019 9:05  full story

Czech Govt Agency for Social Inclusion distances itself from group led by candidate for party using racist slogan

17.2.2019 10:35  full story

Czech Govt Agency for Social Inclusion introduces itself to Romani coordinators in South Moravia

1.12.2018 7:04  full story

Czech city of Ostrava to see ALL JOBS fair later this month

2.11.2018 11:00 The Helping for All (HFA) company, which is involved with supporting the employment of people from socially excluded localities, people living with disabilities or people growing up in children's homes, will hold its ALL JOBS fair on 16 November in Ostrava at the OC Galerie shopping center. The company also offers aid to the wider public with finding new employment and starting career changes.  full story

Czech Civic Democrats want to suspend welfare for misdemeanor recidivists

8.10.2018 18:10 The opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS) submitted a bill on 1 October in the Czech lower house that would make it possible to deprive welfare recipients of their benefits, including housing benefits, for up to three months should the recipient commit a misdemeanor three times during the course of one year, whether the infraction was disturbing nighttime quiet or petty theft. The proposed measures are part of a bill establishing the rules for when entitlement to welfare benefits elapses.  full story

Czech research shows 96 % of poorest families in Rapid Re-Housing maintain their housing and improve their health

4.7.2018 16:39 A project in Brno, Czech Republic called "Rapid Re-Housing" providing municipally-owned apartment units for lease to families at risk of homelessness is celebrating significant success after its first year. According to research by Ostrava University, a total of 96 % of the families in the project have managed to maintain their housing, and what is more, the state of health of the children involved and their parents has improved.  full story

Czech-Roma group Amare Předlice: Today's fire the consequence of a long-dysfunctional strategy for addressing the situation

22.3.2018 14:30 According to the Amare Předlice group, the blaze in the Předlice quarter of Ústí nad Labem today is an outcome of the long-neglected situation in the locality. The local group is calling on the City of Ústí nad Labem to "abandon its dysfunctional strategy" and to work on a solution together with local residents of the quarter.  full story

Czech Republic: Housing estate residents without heat during freezing weather, situation is critical

5.3.2018 12:34 During the past week throughout the entire Czech Republic temperatures have been far below freezing and most people are glad to get warm at home in the evening under their blankets with the heat turned up high. Residents of the Janov housing estate in Litvínov, however, are going to have the worst memories in the country of the winter of 2018.  full story

Czech Republic: Boxing club gets boys and girls off the streets of excluded localities

23.2.2018 7:32 Patrik Horváth, David Tokár and René Pokuta established the Boxing King Club in Ostrava a year and a half ago. They had no experience with managing a boxing club but put their minds to it and the outcomes their charges have achieved after a year of operations are motivating them to continue.  full story

Czech town to discuss controversial proposal tomorrow to declare its entire territory "socially undesirable"

6.12.2017 13:34 As of this year, municipalities in the Czech Republic are able to declare so-called "areas with increased incidence of socially undesirable phenomena" on their territories and to ban housing benefits from being disbursed to persons residing in those locations. At its August session, the Kladno City Council unanimously approved declaring almost all of its territory as such an area.  full story

Czech housing estate sees water cut off, situation is critical for residents

31.10.2017 7:29 Several families with young children living at the Janov housing estate in the Czech town of Litvínov have had their water supply cut off through no fault of their own. Hot water has not been available to them for several weeks now, and for the last few days cold water has not been running there either.  full story