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University students visit Roma homes to give school children private lessons
This month, a new mentoring project will be launched in the Moravian
capital Brno, in which university students visit the homes of Roma
schoolchildren to motivate them and help improve their grades. The
Association of Roma in Moravia has earmarked some 350,000 crowns (just
over 14,000 US dollars) for the project - enough for free private
tutorials until the end of next year.
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Czech gay porn biz said to employ high number of heterosexual men
Trim, tanned, and well-proportioned where it counts: those are some of the
pre-requisites for making it in the gay porn business in the Czech
Republic, which enjoyed a massive boom in recent years. The 'biz' has come
under the spotlight recently in the country's edition of the Big Brother
reality show, in which Filip Trojovsky - known professionally as Tommy
Hansen - admitted to acting in gay porn films though he insisted he was
heterosexual. Strike you as unusual? Apparently in the Czech Republic it
is often the case that actors in gay porn are 'staight'. More
Gay and Lesbian League in Prague uses light-hearted comics to portray life without registered partnerships
The lower house of the Czech Parliament is expected to vote on a bill on
same-sex registered partnerships this month. Last year, a similar bill was
defeated by just one vote. But this time, a homosexual rights group in
Prague has decided to take action within the Chamber of Deputies and has
come up with an unusual method to rally MPs' support.
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Minorities and public broadcasting: are they being presented properly?
Under Czech law, public service broadcasters are obliged to devote
programming time to minorities living in this country such as Slovaks and
Roma. In this week's Talking Point, we look at the impact these broadcasts
have on the image of minorities in Czech society and the challenges facing
public broadcasters as they grapple with an ever-changing demography. More
