• Human Rights Watch Mourns Loss of Vaclav Havel
    Dec 18, 2011
    Human Rights Watch is deeply saddened by the death of Vaclav Havel, the playwright, political dissident and former Czech president who died on December 18, 2011.
  • UN: Mixed Results for New Review Process
    Apr 18, 2008
    The first session of the new country review mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council was undermined by inconsistencies and the timidity of some governments in reviewing others, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 18, 2008 the council concluded a two-week session in which it examined the records of 16 countries as part of the new Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process.
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Czech Republic & Former Czechoslovakia

  • Divided We Fall: Intolerance in Europe Puts Rights at Risk
    Feb 14, 2013
    An Afghan migrant is stabbed in the heart on the streets of Athens. Black-shirted paramilitaries linked to Hungary’s third-largest political party march through a Roma neighborhood shouting, “You will die here.” A neo-Nazi gang commits a string of murders of Turkish immigrants in Germany. An ideologue driven by hatred of “multiculturalism” kills 67 mostly young people on a Norwegian Island.
  • Vaclav Havel: The Playwright in Prague Castle
    Dec 21, 2011
    On Oct. 18, 1989, Czech security police arrested me and 15 Czech dissidents in order to prevent us from meeting in a public place in Prague. Vaclav Havel was part of our group, but he evaded arrest because he arrived late. Later that day, after most of us had been released from detention, we met informally at the Intercontinental Hotel. In just one month Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Revolution” would begin, though none of us would have predicted it at the time.
  • Human Rights Watch Mourns Loss of Vaclav Havel
    Dec 18, 2011
    Human Rights Watch is deeply saddened by the death of Vaclav Havel, the playwright, political dissident and former Czech president who died on December 18, 2011.
  • Joint NGO Letter to the Czech Republic Regarding the EU Network on Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes
    Dec 17, 2008
  • UN: Mixed Results for New Review Process
    Apr 18, 2008
    The first session of the new country review mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council was undermined by inconsistencies and the timidity of some governments in reviewing others, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 18, 2008 the council concluded a two-week session in which it examined the records of 16 countries as part of the new Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process.
  • Human Rights Council Begins Universal Periodic Review
    Apr 6, 2008
    The UN Human Rights Council will begin a new review process on April 7, 2008. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is the most innovative and ambitious instrument of the council and was set up to assess the human rights performance of all 192 UN member states over a four-year cycle.
  • Roma Children Denied Equal Education
    Nov 13, 2007
    (London, November 14, 2007) – The European Court of Human Rights ruling that the Czech government engaged in indirect discrimination against Roma children is a major step forward in implementing the European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights Watch and INTERIGHTS said today.
  • Czech Republic: Release Wrongfully Detained Uzbek Refugees
    Jul 24, 2007
    We write to express our profound concern about the detention by Czech authorities of Omonillo Maksudov and Zohid Mirzaev, both recognized refugees from Uzbekistan residing in Germany. We understand that Czech border police arrested Maksudov and Mirzaev pursuant to an Interpol warrant based on an extradition request posted by the Uzbek government, following their entry into the Czech Republic on July 2.
  • EU: Keep Up Pressure for Arms Trade Reforms in Candidate Countries
    Oct 8, 2002
    The European Union (EU) should continue to press candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe to improve arms trade controls, Human Rights Watch said today. Tomorrow, the EU is expected to release the latest annual reports assessing the progress of individual candidates toward accession. These will help pave the way for final decisions, expected later this year, on the next round of EU enlargement.
  • Slovakia: Proposed Weapons Reforms Fall Short
    Jul 2, 2002
    New Pending legislation in Slovakia does not go far enough to prevent illicit arms trafficking, Human Rights Watch said today. The Slovak parliament is expected to vote this week on amendments to tighten legal controls on the foreign trade in weapons.
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