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Ticket inspectors may soon have to wear uniforms -but how will they ever
manage to catch anyone out? Transport minister Milan Simonovsky does a bit
of acting on the side, starring in a new road safety video. And who'll be
watching birds this weekend? Find out more in this week's edition of
Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Current AffairsLight sentences for racist attack come under fire
The verdict of a regional court which gave three youths found guilty of a
brutal racist attack against a Romany couple a three year suspended
sentence has evoked outrage among the Romany minority. They have
petitioned the government and the justice ministry, demanding a fair and
just trial. Deputy Prime Minister Petr Mares, who also professed to have
been shocked by the benevolent sentences, has asked the justice minister
for an explanation. We asked the government's human rights commissioner
Jan Jarab how he perceived the verdict of the Jesenik court:
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Czech BooksNew School: How one NGO is helping promote multiculturalism in the Czech Republic
Welcome to Radio Prague and today's special programme an extended edition
of Czech Books. Today we look at what one NGO, titled Nova Skola is doing
to help promote multiculturalism in the Czech Republic and we'll be
talking to the outspoken and charismatic David Murphy, a representative of
that organisation who feels most strongly about the importance of helping
minorities in the Czech Republic. In the interview we discuss: the
situations with minorities, notably the Czech Republic's largest minority
the Roma, the assistant teachers programme, and an annual contest held by
Nova Skola, called Romano Suno - or Romany Dream - that encourages Roma
children and young adults to rediscover - and write in - their own
language to express sometimes very difficult life situations but also
hopes and dreams. One note: in the second half of the show we'll be
reading you several entries from this year's competition, which Nova Skola
publishes in book form, using all three languages: Roma, Czech, and
English.
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WitnessMarketa Richterova - my Romany wedding that never was
Marketa Richterova is a young actress living in Prague. In communist days
her family had huge problems with the regime. Her parents were dissidents
and the family was forced to emigrate when Marketa was a child in 1981.
Given this traumatic early experience it is not surprising that she has
since had a strong sense of understanding for other people forced for
whatever reasons to flee their home. Here she talks about how she decided
to help out a friend, when the war in Yugoslavia broke out in the early
1990s.
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Talking PointSocial "streetwork" - getting closer to the client
A decade ago, back in 1993, a new model of social work called
"streetwork" was introduced to the Czech Republic. The idea is
to move the act of social assistance from the office desk to the clients
themselves - to the street, so to speak. Streetwork began to develop both
in the governmental and non-governmental sphere. At first the two sectors
did not cooperate much and there was even a certain level of rivalry
between them. In today's Talking Point we look at one project of social
streetwork where the state and NGOs work in harmony.
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Current AffairsProject aims to help young Roma maintain centuries-old traditions
There are frequent reports about the discrimination suffered by the Czech
Republic's Roma minority: they have higher unemployment rates, leave
school earlier and - in some parts of the country - they cannot walk down
the street in safety. Now a new report says the country's Romanies are
faced with a new threat: the loss of some aspects of their traditional
culture. A European Union-funded project called "Czech Roma in the
Europe of Nations" has held three meetings in north Moravia this week
to draw attention to the fact that some young Romanies are losing touch
with their people's traditional way of life.
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