Czech Republic Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/fr/category/news-eastern-europe/czech/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:45:29 +0000 fr-FR hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Czech Republic Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/fr/category/news-eastern-europe/czech/ 32 32 Brno: Scam https://rroma.org/fr/brno-scam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brno-scam Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:45:29 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27947 A woman in her 40s approached an 80 years old man saying that she was from a Roma association helping […]

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]]> A woman in her 40s approached an 80 years old man saying that she was from a Roma association helping seniors and offered to help him withdraw money. He agreed but she then took the envelope with 30,000 crowns from him and left. The police are looking for her.

This is bad for all.

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]]> School Segregation in the Czech Republic https://rroma.org/fr/school-segregation-in-the-czech-republic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=school-segregation-in-the-czech-republic Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:44:48 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27944 The paradox of today’s Czech Republic is that a country that aspired to connect with the liberal West after the […]

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]]> The paradox of today’s Czech Republic is that a country that aspired to connect with the liberal West after the fall of communism, tolerates a system of educational segregation that would put to shame even the illiberal regimes it once condemned. According to PAQ Research, there are 130 schools in the Czech Republic that are de facto “only for Roma”, where Roma children make up more than a third of the students. There are still 130 segregated schools in the Czech Republic. A third of Roma children end up in them.

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]]> Czechia and Elections https://rroma.org/fr/czechia-and-elections/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-and-elections Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:44:05 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27941 In the Ušti nad Labem region, in the last parliamentary elections, many Roma preferred Andrej Babiš (ANO). Now, after many […]

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]]> In the Ušti nad Labem region, in the last parliamentary elections, many Roma preferred Andrej Babiš (ANO). Now, after many years, they have their own candidate, who, thanks to the communists, can get into the Chamber of Deputies. “Kateřina Konečná gives us a historic chance, but Roma voters must help me,” says 44-year-old Marco Cavali and thanks the KSČM chairwoman for the opportunity, who confirmed him as the electoral three on the Stačilo! candidate list in the Ústí nad Labem region. However, Cavali has been insolvent since 2022, but he does not consider financial problems an obstacle to electoral success.

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]]> Czechia: School Segregation https://rroma.org/fr/czechia-school-segregation-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-school-segregation-3 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:32:47 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27880 The segregation of Roma children in education in the Czech Republic continues. There are still more than 130 segregated schools, […]

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]]> The segregation of Roma children in education in the Czech Republic continues. There are still more than 130 segregated schools, of which in 78 of them Roma children make up more than half of the pupils, according to a PAQ Research study based on estimates from the Ministry of Education. Segregated schools are located in most regions and the situation has not changed significantly in the last decade.

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]]> Charter 77 Award https://rroma.org/fr/charter-77-award/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=charter-77-award Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:31:58 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27877 The František Kriegl Award of the Czech Charter 77 Foundation for Civic Courage was awarded this year to Romani activist […]

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]]> The František Kriegl Award of the Czech Charter 77 Foundation for Civic Courage was awarded this year to Romani activist and social worker Elena Gorolová. The jury honoured her for her personal and professional contribution to the fight for compensation for victims of illegal and secret sterilizations. It particularly highlighted her long-term efforts and the courage with which she raised the topic, as well as her subsequent fight for compensation for victims of illegal actions by state healthcare facilities.

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]]> Czechoslovakia: Sterilisations https://rroma.org/fr/czechoslovakia-sterilisations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechoslovakia-sterilisations Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:31:01 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27874 It is estimated that thousands of women of Roma origin were sterilized in Czechoslovakia since the early 1970s. They had […]

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]]> It is estimated that thousands of women of Roma origin were sterilized in Czechoslovakia since the early 1970s. They had to wait decades for compensation.

In the Czechoslovak environment, forced sterilizations often took place in delivery rooms, at the moments of greatest vulnerability of women, during cesarean section births. Women in pain and under pressure from medical personnel were unable to give truly informed consent. The decree on sterilizations was repealed in 1993, but unfortunately isolated and illegal cases continued to occur. The last verified case of involuntary sterilization in the Czech Republic dates back only eleven years, to 2007. As Kateřina Čapková from the Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic emphasizes: “Forced sterilizations as a scientific topic seem to me to be important to study mainly in international contexts as a phenomenon that appears in states with different, and one could even say contradictory, ideologies.” The Prague Forum for Roma History therefore plans to support deeper research into this area that has so far been insufficiently researched.

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]]> LGBT+ Roma https://rroma.org/fr/lgbt-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lgbt-roma Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:05:04 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27844 David Tišer is a well-known Czech Roma activist. He is the director of the Ara Art organization, which also supports […]

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]]> David Tišer is a well-known Czech Roma activist. He is the director of the Ara Art organization, which also supports LGBT+ people among the Roma. In his interview, he was asked why some Roma consider queer people ritually unclean and why coming out among Roma can be even harder than in mainstream society.

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]]> Czechia: Education, Art, and Roma https://rroma.org/fr/czechia-education-art-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-education-art-and-roma Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:41:17 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27831 What is the power of words, culture and art in creating a feeling that one belongs somewhere and can be […]

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]]> What is the power of words, culture and art in creating a feeling that one belongs somewhere and can be proud of oneself? This is a question that concerns not only minorities in Czech schools. The way to do this can be social support from the environment and art. For Roma students, it is offered, for example, by the Ara Art organization, which is dedicated to activist culture, or the Kher publishing house, which publishes children’s books on Roma themes. How to ensure that children’s talent and potential do not go to waste?

Roma children make up roughly three percent of all students in Czech schools. However, they are not enrolled evenly. According to PAQ Research data, in 2023 there were approximately 130 segregated schools where Roma made up at least a third of the students.

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]]> Czechia and the International Roma Day https://rroma.org/fr/czechia-and-the-international-roma-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-and-the-international-roma-day Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:40:25 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27828 An article about April 8th, stressing its origins to the historic congress in Orpington, near London, UK, which took place […]

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]]> An article about April 8th, stressing its origins to the historic congress in Orpington, near London, UK, which took place from April 7 to 12, 1971, laying the foundations for international Roma cooperation and bringing symbols of Roma identity.

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]]> Liberec: Vandals https://rroma.org/fr/liberec-vandals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=liberec-vandals Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:08:52 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27812 A vandal damaged a memorial of Roma children from the Czech city of Liberec who were murdered during the Holocaust. […]

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]]> A vandal damaged a memorial of Roma children from the Czech city of Liberec who were murdered during the Holocaust. The memorial was only erected a year agao.

Shame!

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