April 17, 2018
The total number of complaints delivered in 2017 to the Ombudsman was 8,191. People increasingly turn to the Ombudsman's Office with their problems in the sphere of social security and also number of complaints concerning work and employment increased by 39 percent.
March 8, 2018
Ladies coupés on Czech Railways trains were introduced in 2012 after Czech Railways received a considerable number of complaints from passengers (especially women) claiming that they do not feel safe in the trains while sitting with strange men in one coupé. Inspired by the solution adopted abroad (for example in Germany or Austria), Czech Railways decided to reserve six seats (one coupé) on trains only for women.
February 26, 2018
Anna Šabatová, Czech Ombudswoman, and Günther Kräuter, one of three Austrian Ombudsmen, together with their colleagues from the social security departments met in Vienna on the 20th February and discussed the cross-border problems concerning the application of the EU Regulation on the Coordination of Social Security Systems in the EU Member States.
February 12, 2018
February 5, 2018
From January 2018, Public Defender of Rights of the Czech Republic became the body that shall contribute to the full exercise of free movement of EU citizens.
January 11, 2018
Ombudsman Anna Šabatová and Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks about inclusive education in the Czech Republic.
January 5, 2018
Under an amendment to the anti-discrimination law which took affect on the 1st January 2018, the Czech ombudsman will observe whether foreign workers from EU countries are discriminated in the Czech Republic over their citizenship.
January 2, 2018
The Czech ombudsman has taken up the case of around 70 Chinese Christians who applied for asylum in the Czech Republic on the grounds that they fear persecution at home.
December 20, 2017
December 14, 2017
December 1, 2017
November 20, 2017
October 30, 2017
October 17, 2017
A married couple turned to the ombudsman in a case involving the procedure of authorities (the Nature Conservation Body, the Construction Authority) in connection to granting permission to fence a fallow deer farm on their land.
September 4, 2017
August 30, 2017
Ombudsman published a report summarizing her findings from unannounced visits to 47 cells for provisional detention at 14 district police stations. Ombudsman came to conclusion that provisionally detained people are sometimes humiliated and their rights, privacy and dignity might be violated.
June 19, 2017
(with CTK) – Czech parents have to pay up to 70,000 crowns for the transfer of their child from one ice-hockey club to another, which is quite absurd and unethical, they complain. Ombudsman Anna Sabatova criticised the system.