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Czech Govt Council for Roma Minority Affairs is in ruins after wave of resignations - just eight of 18 volunteer civil society positions remain filled

After a series of resignations, the Czech Government Council for Roma Minority Affairs has just eight volunteer civil society ...
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Czech "superbenefit" could use district-level data to award housing support, single parents of minor children could qualify as vulnerable if amendments are adopted

The amount of housing support included in the Czech "superbenefit" could be determined based on district-level information ...
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Director of In IUSTITIA NGO: I'm not resigning, I want to offer my expertise to the Czech state one more time, but it must prove that the transfer of the human rights …

Another wave of experts from the Government's Councils and their Committees on human rights issues resigned yesterday. Six ...
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Addiction policy and the human rights agenda have been dislocated from the central level to four Czech ministries, critics call this the destruction and dilution of the supe…

As of 1 July 2026, the addiction policy and human rights agendas no longer fall under the Office of the Government of the ...
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Kumar Vishwanathan: An era of human rights protection is ending - and the institution that served the Czech Republic for 30 years deserves more than this hast…

When the Czech Government Council for Human Rights was established in 1998, Petr Uhl became its first Government Commissioner ...
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We have been systematically monitoring the image of Roma in the media for more than 23 years.
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Podcast Versus #06: The SPD is a racist party, but Romani people should have their advocates even in this administration, says new Czech Government Commissioner f…

"The governing SPD is a racist party, but even in this administration, Romani people deserve to have their rights defended. I ...
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Romanian appeals court finds rules to access social housing in Cluj-Napoca indirectly discriminate against Roma families

An appeals court in Bucharest, Romania has confirmed that the rules for awarding social housing in the city of Cluj-Napoca ...
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Germany: Former Czech President and current Speaker of Czech lower house support extremist AfD, wish them electoral victory

Former Czech President Václav Klaus and current Speaker of the Czech Chamber of Deputies Tomio Okamura spoke on Friday, 26 ...
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Czech Govt sees resignations of 53 volunteer civil society experts from its advisory bodies, five members resign from the Council for Roma Minority Affairs, Michal Mik…

A total of 53 experts from Councils, their Committees, and their Working Groups advising the Czech Government resigned as of ...
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Czech court partially agrees with far-right SPD movement in its case against Interior Ministry including it in the 2022 extremism report, but does not award it an apology

According to the District Court for Prague 7, the Czech Interior Ministry violated the rights of the "Freedom and Direct ...
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Vlado Rafael: Slovak Office of the Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities losing influence and trust, leaving a bitter legacy

The Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities in Slovakia was supposed to be an institution co-creating ...