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Current AffairsHome births back in spotlight as group of pregnant women take their case to European Court of Human Rights
A woman's right to give birth at home is back in the spotlight in the Czech
Republic, as a group of pregnant women intend to file a complaint at the
European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The Czech state makes planned
home births virtually impossible; there are midwives qualified to deliver
babies at home, but they lack official registration and insurance companies
won't cover them. More
Current AffairsStories of Injustice film project tries to shed light on grey “normalization” period
The 2006 film “Swingtime” inspired by a communist-era secret police
operation as well as four documentaries will be screened in November at
primary and secondary schools around the country as part of a month-long
project called Stories of Injustice. Now in its seventh year the project
organized by the NGO People in Need covers a period often neglected in the
curriculum. Through film and subsequent discussions with survivors,
witnesses and victims of communist injustice, students are learning about
post-war Czechoslovak history – this year with a special focus on the
period of normalization and the subjects of emigration and exile. Radio
Prague talked to the project’s spokesman Filip Šebek. More
PanoramaCzechs make their voice heard for fair trade
A booth on Prague’s Jungmann Square is making people stop and stare.
Individuals walk inside, close the door and yell at the top of their lungs
– to come out smiling moments later, as someone else takes their place.
What you hear there is not a frustrated employee letting off steam after a
bad day at work –it’s a voice raised in support of fair trade and
making companies observe human rights and give people decent work
conditions in countries where it is easy to abuse them. The Czech NGO Na
Zemi has launched a campaign to raise awareness of how many people in the
developing world work in shocking conditions for large multinational
companies and try to put a stop to the practice. Anna Lazorova from Na Zemi
is one of the organizers. More
One on OneCzeslaw Walek – Prague Pride’s first director and a lawyer by profession
Czeslaw Walek, who studied law with a focus on human rights, has been in
the media a lot in recent weeks, due to his role as the director of the
Prague Pride festival. Previously, he has held government offices such as
director of the Office of the Council for Roma Affairs. He has lived in
both Krakow and Budapest and is a member of the Czech Republic’s Polish
minority. He speaks about his work, human rights and how he feels the first
Prague Pride festival went. More
Current AffairsPeople in Need finds six thousand starving refugees in Ethiopia
The Czech charity organisation People in Need working in south-eastern
Ethiopia has found a group of roughly six thousand people suffering from
hunger and malnourishment. Known for working in remote areas, the
organisation was near the Somali border looking into the state of a group
of local herdsmen whose cattle had died out and found that they had been
joined by several thousand drought refugees from neighbouring Somalia.
Local communities have been trying to care for the refugees so far, but
their material support - water, food and firewood – is quickly running
out, children are dying on a weekly basis, and the group has not yet even
received refugee status by the Ethiopian government. Earlier today I spoke
by phone with People in Need’s coordinator Marek Štys, who is currently
in the Somali region of Ethiopia and described the situation. More
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