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Current AffairsPolice charge mother suspected of murdering four children
Police have charged the woman assumed to be responsible for the most brutal
child murder in modern Czech history. The 36-year-old is believed to have
murdered all four of her children with a knife on Friday before making an
unsuccessful attempt at suicide. More
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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Current AffairsNew initiative aims to promote the country’s foster and adoptive families’ system
June 1 marks International Children’s Day in the Czech Republic, where
more than 11,000 children who cannot be raised by their biological parents
live in institutionalized care – an unusually high number compared with
other European countries. Widespread institutionalized care is a legacy of
communism, when children’s homes were the only option and foster families
did not exist. A new initiative, odsouzeni.cz, is aiming to change that. I
spoke to Roman Pavlík, the coordinator of the initiative which aims to
promote alternative forms of child care, such as foster and adoptive
families, in the Czech Republic. I started by asking him to describe the
typical situation of a child who cannot be raised by his or her parents
here in the Czech Republic. More
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