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Ladies’ coupés on Czech Railways trains are all right
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.
Czech and Austrian Ombudsmen to discuss cross-border problems concerning social security benefits
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.
Siblings have the right to grow up together
February 12, 2018
Czech Ombudsman to help EU citizens to fully exercise their right to free movement
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.
Inclusive education is not a utopian project
January 11, 2018
Ombudsman Anna Šabatová and Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks about inclusive education in the Czech Republic.
Czech ombudsman to deal with discrimination against EU manpower
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.
Czech ombudsman takes up case of Chinese Christians seeking asylum
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.
Foreign development co-operation assistance to a segregated school
December 20, 2017
Logarithmic equation in the school-leaving examination
December 14, 2017
Additional record in the book of births
December 1, 2017
Indemnification for a delay of an administrative authority
November 20, 2017
Activities of the ombudsman for the third quarter of 2017
October 30, 2017
Fences around a farm as possible interference with the appearance of the landscape
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.
Procedure of bodies of State Heritage Care
September 4, 2017
Findings from visits to police cells
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.
Ombudsman criticised the system of transfer compensation in child hockey
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.
Placement in an isolation room
June 12, 2017