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Current AffairsFive years since same-sex registered partnership was introduced activists say bill didn’t go far enough
It has been five years since the bill on registered partnership between gay
couples came into force in the Czech Republic. During the period, more than
1,200 gay and lesbian couples in the country formed civil unions. While
most within the gay community welcomed the original legislation as an
important milestone, many still feel it didn’t go far enough as it failed
to recognise gay marriage or adoption rights. Radio Prague spoke to Zdeněk
Sloboda, a representative of PROUD, a Czech initiative promoting human
rights.
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Today in Mailbox: New signature tune, vocabulary concerning same-sex
marriages, wetlands in the Czech Republic, a question about an internet TV
channel, Czech tennis players. Listeners quoted: Gary Glaser, Meng Cheng,
José Ramírez, Ted Schuerzinger.
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Current AffairsGay grouping demands right to adopt children
A gay association has called for the Czech legal landscape to be redrawn
allowing individual members of gay couples to be allowed to adopt
children.
The demand is backed up by legal analysis and a 2,000 signature petition
calling for action. More
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Today in Mailbox: New Year’s greetings, the Czech words for “to
marry”, Czech Radio’s documentary on lullabies, Radio Prague’s
Christmas competition. Listeners quoted: Ashraful Islam, Jonathan Murphy,
Gary Glaser.
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Current AffairsGay marriages on the rise
In March of 2006 Czech homosexuals celebrated an important victory. After
seven years of intensive lobbying the Czech Parliament finally passed a law
on same-sex partnerships or so called gay-marriages, overriding president
Klaus’s veto by a narrow majority. A year and a half later the number of
registered partnerships between same-sex couples in the Czech Republic has
reached nearly five hundred. Ruth Fraňková spoke to Slavomír Goga from
the Gay and Lesbian League and started by asking whether the new law had
made a significant difference to the life of the gay and lesbian community.
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The very first pub on wheels in the Czech Republic! Czech hunters have held
their annual "elk bugling" contest - and, who says fishing in
Prague is no fun? An Australian angler lands the biggest fish ever to come
out of the Vltava River. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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