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LIGA in the Media
Fair Schools are awarded certificates
04.11. 2009A new program designed by the League of Human Rights aims to make Czech schools a fair place for everyone, including students with physical disabilities, learning disabilities and those who come from socially disadvantaged communities.
All ->Embassy protesters decry harassment
12.08. 2009Amnesty International (AI) and local activists have accused the police of harassment and issuing threats after protesting outside the Iranian Embassy.
All ->Courts would be perhaps allowed to publish pending judgments
13.06. 2009The Ministry of Justice rendered a decision which is (in accordance to some interpretations) a radical break-through in a present-day practice of publishing the judgments. It may mean that Courts will also be obliged to publish pending judgments, which can nowadays be gained in public passing of the sentence or later from participants of a law-suit.
All ->How long will it take Pecina to dismantle the police?
28.05. 2009It could be the Police who will play a crucial role in preventing the radicalization of the society. As a long-time critic of the Police, I am curious to watch their efforts to introduce elements which could finally, after seventy years, get the Police closer to citizens.
All ->World Respected Childbirth Week aims to make mothers familiar with their rights
20.05. 2009Prague – It often happens that pregnant women do not know what rights they have during childbirth. The medics often provide them with misleading information and easily manipulate them, says Petra Sovová, the Chair of the Movement for Active Motherhood, to the Czech News Agency (ČTK) on the occasion of the World Respected Childbirth Week. The Movement, together with the Czech Doula Association works to provide expectant mothers with more information on their rights during pregnancy and after childbirth.
All ->Extreme solutions produce extremists
06.05. 2009Despite all of the well-intentioned statements, the governmental policy on extremism is a very repressive document. Solving problems by creating different ones seem to be the only thing the politicians have learned from dealing with the mythical “Romany question.” It has even come so far that the right of assembly is often restricted in the name of human rights. But what can be done when it is only after a terrible hangover that we, the Czech people wake up?
All ->She was locked up at an insane asylum, now she gets compensation
05.05. 2009The Ministry of Justice is to pay 36,000 CZK to a woman who was forced to spend 60 days in Bohnice mental hospital in Prague against her will, said Maroš Matiaško, a Liga and MDAC lawyer, yesterday in reference to the decision of the District Court for Prague 2.
All ->Parents were under police investigation for putting off vaccination
13.01. 2009BRNO / Rashness, assiduity, ignorance of law, excess. It is with these qualifiers that Liga describes the behaviour of district officials in Královo Pole. District officials lodged a complaint against parents who had postponed the vaccination of their son, barely six months old at that time.
All ->POLITICS: Lidove noviny daily: Why did politicians wish to keep libel in criminal code
12.01. 2009If the politicians respected the opinions of the creators of the new Penal Code, no libel would be there.
All ->The League of Human Rights protests against the Civil Code
09.09. 2008The League of Human Rights and other organizations dealing with the rights of people with mental disabilities prepared over 50 comments to the new draft Civil Code.
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