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Romani people have faced discrimination and exclusion since Czechoslovakia first became a state

1.11.2021 16:54  full story

Czech Senate approves increase to contributions for the care of people with disabilities, to be paid for by reductions to other social services

31.8.2021 5:55  full story

Czech MPs abolish infant institutions and raise remuneration for foster parents, bill now heads to Senate

12.8.2021 5:33  full story

Czech Senate approves compensation for the victims of illegal sterilizations

22.7.2021 13:18  full story

Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe calls on the Czech Senate to approve compensation for illegal sterilizations, final vote tomorrow

21.7.2021 18:29  full story

Slovak Ombudswoman and NGOs appeal to Government to compensate illegally sterilized people

9.6.2021 19:01  full story

Commentary: Czech amendment to tighten welfare restrictions is just more salt in the wound

10.2.2021 11:06  full story

Elena Gorolová, spokeswoman for the illegally sterilized, calls on Czech MPs to support first reading of bill to compensate them

9.2.2021 7:23  full story

Czech NGOs say lawmakers want to cut welfare despite impending social crisis

23.10.2020 14:38  full story

Czech Interior Ministry and Prague City Hall stop leasing properties to publisher who released Nazi calendar, MPs plan to ban the sale of Nazi symbols

30.5.2020 11:38  full story

Czech bill would make it possible to apply for unemployment benefits electronically in order to prevent COVID-19 spread

3.4.2020 10:00  full story

Czech commercial television station broadcast racist jokes on Christmas, broadcast council warns they broke the law

21.1.2020 12:05  full story

Zdeněk Ryšavý: Online hate - what can we do? Welcoming remarks at the 2019 Annual Conference of the International Network against Cyber Hate (INACH)

1.11.2019 5:40  full story

videoSixty years ago the "law on the permanent settlement of itinerant persons" was adopted in Czechoslovakia

15.11.2018 7:58  full story

Czech expenditure on aid to those in material distress lowest for the last six years

26.7.2018 8:30 Expenditures on the set of welfare benefits known in the Czech Republic as "aid to those in material distress" have significantly fallen for the fourth year in a row and are at their lowest levels in six years. The number of persons receiving assistance from the state is also declining.  full story

Tomáš Ščuka: Unwritten social rules make racism against the Romani minority socially acceptable

4.6.2017 12:40 As we all well know, the written laws of any country legislate the generally binding rules for behavior in society and are enforceable. There are also unwritten laws, or legal customs, and they are also determined by the rules of behavior through which a society governs itself.  full story

Czech Government approves social housing bill, ANO insists on reservations

11.3.2017 12:02 The long-anticipated, much-discussed social housing bill will now make its way to the Czech Chamber of Deputies. The bill's authors claim it should reduce trafficking in poverty and was approved by the Government on 8 March, according to cabinet spokesperson Martin Ayrer.  full story