Czech Government Human Rights Commissioner
Czech MP and outgoing Government Human Rights Commissioner Helena Válková during the 12 January 2022 session of the Czech Chamber of Deputies (PHOTO: Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic)
Outgoing Czech Govt Human Rights Commissioner calls on new administration to establish Commissioner for Romani Affairs
13.1.2022 6:37 full story
Czech Government Human Rights Commissioner stepping down by the end of January
7.1.2022 15:56 full story
Czech Govt Human Rights Commissioner calls for investigation of police intervention against Romani man who later died to be made a priority
24.6.2021 11:49 full story
Svatopluk Karásek, former Czech Govt Human Rights Commissioner, politician, religious figure and songwriter, has passed away
20.12.2020 18:51 full story
Czech Govt Human Rights Commissioner thanks Roma for their aid during COVID-19 and wishes them well on International Romani Day
8.4.2020 17:05 full story
Jarmila Balážová: Is the boundary of what is excusable being pushed beyond all recognition?
22.1.2020 9:24 full story
Volunteer civil society member of Czech Govt Council on Roma Affairs resigns over Human Rights Commissioner affair
20.1.2020 18:39 full story
Civil society members of the Czech Govt Council on Roma Minority Affairs differ on whether Human Rights Commissioner should remain in office
17.1.2020 11:35 full story
Marek Szilvási: Czech Government should stop gambling with the country's reputation - the fight for compensation for forced sterilization is not over
4.11.2015 19:15 I remember being with the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) just a couple of months when I was invited to Ostrava to an informal meeting with the Group of Women Harmed by Coercive Sterilization, an informal collective of harmed self-advocating Romani women. The meeting was organised by the local Life Together NGO in early April 2012 to celebrate the fact that after years of local activism, lawsuits and advocacy struggles, the Government’s Council for Human Rights had finally recommended the Government develop a compensation scheme for involuntarily sterilized women. A month earlier, the Group, Life Together and the ERRC had sent an official letter welcoming this government commitment. I took an early morning train and after a half-day journey from Budapest to Ostrava, I was warmly welcomed by the Life Together staff and the Romani women activists, whom until then I knew only through phone calls and email correspondence. After shedding my water-soaked coat I entered the second room and was introduced to Monika Šimúnková, the Czech Government’s Human Rights Commissioner, and Kateřina Valachová, now the current Minister of Education, who was at that time working for the Ombudsman. The atmosphere was relaxed, almost festive, and I soon succumbed to it and started expecting this controversy soon to be over. full story
Czech Republic: Activists want incoming governing coalition to enact Human Rights Ministry
Prague, 27.11.2013 0:05, (ROMEA) A total of 40 nonprofit organizations and several eminent figures in the Czech Republic have issued an open letter calling on the heads of the ANO, Christian Democratic and Social Democratic parties to consider establishing a Ministry for Human Rights, Minorities and Equal Opportunities should they form a government. Proponents of the move believe it would mean such issues would receive greater weight and would not only help solve country's problems with ghettos, but would even benefit the economy as a whole. full story
Czech Christian Democrats: Ethnic origin must never be a parameter for judging anyone
Prague, 8.11.2013 1:02, (ROMEA) In a recent interview for the anti-Romani tabloid periodical Parlamentní listy, Czech Senator Jiří Čunek has once again expressed his peculiar approach toward Romani people. Čunek told the tabloid that he would like to be appointed by the party to a cabinet post so he could address the issue of Romani people. full story
Czech Green Party candidate Czeslaw Walek: Romani topics have long been ignored
Prague, 21.10.2013 23:58, (ROMEA) The collaboration between the Green Party (Strana zelených - SZ) and the Equal Opportunities Party (Strana rovných příležitostí - SRP) is the most significant offer to be made to a "Romani" party in the Czech Republic since 1990. The Greens have long focused on the topic of inter-ethnic coexistence and related questions and have also protested manifestations of racism. full story
Former Czech Govt Human Rights Commissioner says Interior Ministry wants rights agenda
Prague, 18.10.2013 22:07, (ROMEA) According to former Czech Government Human Rights Commissioner Monika Šimůnková, efforts are underway in the outgoing Rusnok government to transfer the human rights agenda on minorities and other vulnerable groups from the Office of the Government to the Interior Ministry. Šimůnková views the cabinet's different perspective on human rights issues as one of the reasons she was dismissed from her post as head of the Human Rights Section, and that difference is the reason she has resigned as commissioner. full story
Czech Gov't Human Rights Commissioner Monika Šimůnková resigns
Prague, 18.10.2013 0:10, (ROMEA) Czech Government Human Rights Commissioner Monika Šimůnková has resigned. Her resignation is in response to the circumstances of her dismissal on Tuesday from her position as head of the Human Rights Section at the Office of the Government. full story
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