Czech Centre for Human Rights and Democracy

The Centre is an independent academic institution monitoring human rights developments both domestically and worldwide, issuing a monthly Bulletin, as well as organizing conferences.

22. 3. 2013  

A screening of an award winning documentary Kabul Transit will be held in room P31 at the Faculty of Social Science (Joštova 10, Brno) on Monday, 15 April 2013, from 16:00. A discussion with its director professor David Edwards will follow. 

If you want to find out more about the documentary, visit this site.

21. 3. 2013  

In an interview for the Czech Television, Linda Janků, one of members of the Center, presented key findings and conclusions of the Shadow Report drafted by the Center for the European Network Against Racism (ENAR).

All ENAR reports, including the one written by the Center, can be found here.

13. 3. 2013  

In February 2013 the Center became focused on issues related to connections between business and human rights. In the Czech-language edition of the Bulletin (2/2013), the Center started the debate on these issues with an introductory article by Tereza Dolezalova.

To see the Bulletin, click here.

19. 2. 2013  

Helena Bončková, member of the Center, published a comment on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Lutsenko v. Ukraine.

This decision is a crucial one as it is a first oficial opinion of the European Court of Human Rights contributing to debates relating to politization of trials of former members of "orange" government of Julia Tymoshenko. 

Research and Protection of Human Rights in the Czech Republic - List of HR Organizations

We have prepared a list of organizations and institutions engaged in research and/or protection of human rights for you. You can have a look at it here. Should you have any comments or suggestions, please do contact us.

Primary motivation for creating such a list was to offer more or less a comprehensive material which could help foreign obervers of human rights issues in the Czech Republic to orientate in the area of Czech human rights organizations.

New Issues of Czech Republic Human Rights Review

A new issue of Czech Republic Human Rights Review is out. You can read it here. Inside you'll find e.g. an interview with professor Manfred Nowak or with the lega adviser of Radovan Karadžič Peter Robinson.

7. 12. 2012  

On December 6, the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy organized seminar "International Criminal Court: political and legal limits of effective functioning" in the premises of the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University.

Along with well-known guests - Robert Fremr, future judge at the ICC, and Katerina Uhlirova, who previously worked at the court-martial in Bosnia and Herzegovina - 60 debaters, mostly students of the Faculty of Social Studies, the Faculty of Law, or practitioners (mainly from the Supreme Court), attended the seminar. Students were primarily interested in Mr. Fremr's campaign,in  the political dimension of decision-making in the ICC, in the influence of the Security Council and in the neutral position of the prosecutor.