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250,000 Czechs on the Streets in Biggest Protest Since the Fall of Communism

June 27, 2019 • by The League of Human Rights

The prime minister of the Czech Republic has said that he "doesn't really understand" why people are protesting after hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Prague on Monday. In a statement on his website, Prime Minister Andrej Babis denied alleg...

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Czech PM Tries to Halt his Prosecution for Embezzling EU Funds

April 25, 2019 • by The League of Human Rights

Police investigators may press charges against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and members of his family over suspicions that they illegally tapped into a 50 million crown EU subsidy ten years ago. Babiš has claimed that this is a conspiracy and has ...

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Czech Republic Signals Exit From UN Migration Pact

November 02, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has suggested that his country will withdraw from the United Nations pact on migration. The move, which the European Commission is not happy about, comes after Austria, Hungary and the US also withdrew from the pact. T...

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Poland Comes Out Against EU Border Guard Plan

October 17, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Poland and the Czech Republic are pushing back on EU plans to create a new border force with 10,000 additional guards. The new body would be under the control of Frontex, the EU border agency. But both Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moraiwecki, and Czec...

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Threat of anti-migrant militias growing in Central Europe

September 05, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

After the far right protests in Chemnitz, the Czech intelligence service, BIS, has voiced alarm over the emergence of armed anti-migrant militias in Czechia. A Czech daily quotes a classified BIS report on a group called the National Home Guard. Czech ...

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Transparency Watchdog Says Babiš Still Controlling Agrofert

August 16, 2018 • by The League of Human Rights

The Czech chapter of Transparency International (TI) has filed a complaint against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš after uncovering information that suggests that although he put his billion-crown conglomerate Agrofert into a trust fund to comply wit...

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Czech Court Recognizes Gay Couple as Child's Parents

June 01, 2018 • by The League of Human Rights

At the beginning of May, the Czech Supreme Court acknowledged a decision by a judge in the US state of California, which declared a pair of Czech gay men as the legal parents of a newly born child. The child was born to a surrogate mother in California...

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Czech Republic: Groundbreaking Judgment Helps Those With Disabilities

March 14, 2018 • by The League of Human Rights

The Czech Constitutional Court has issued a judgment that is in many respects a legal breakthrough for the country. The court ruled on 14 February that persons with disabilities who are in a difficult social situation do have a public right to appropri...

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Ahead of Elections, Czech Voters Are Being Misled by Fake News on Migrants

January 24, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

The presidential election in the Czech Republic has escalated after incumbent Milos Zeman’s supporters published ads that said, “Stop migration and Drahoš, this country is ours, vote for Zeman”. While Zeman's opponent, pro-EU academic Jiří Drahoš, has ...

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Elections Are Still Not for Everyone: A Human Rights Day Video Series

December 12, 2017 • by The League of Human Rights

We celebrated International Human Rights Day on December 10, during which we recall the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We should protect them - they are our human rights. To celebrate this important day, the Czech Ombudsman's Of...

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250,000 Czechs on the Streets in Biggest Protest Since the Fall of Communism

Czech PM Tries to Halt his Prosecution for Embezzling EU Funds

Czech Republic Signals Exit From UN Migration Pact

Poland Comes Out Against EU Border Guard Plan

Threat of anti-migrant militias growing in Central Europe

Transparency Watchdog Says Babiš Still Controlling Agrofert

Czech Court Recognizes Gay Couple as Child's Parents

Czech Republic: Groundbreaking Judgment Helps Those With Disabilities

Ahead of Elections, Czech Voters Are Being Misled by Fake News on Migrants

Elections Are Still Not for Everyone: A Human Rights Day Video Series

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