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Contact2020 marks the 20th anniversary of two Equality Directives: the Racial Equality Directive (2000/43/EC) and the Employment Equality Directive (2000/78/EC) which are key European Union non-discrimination directives. Every five years, the European Commission (EC) reports to the European Parliament and … Continue reading
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The Czech Helsinki Committee (CHC), as a member of the International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH), shares information related to its recent activities. Since 1st of February 2020 INACH has started a new project Remember and ACT! (Re-ACT), funded by … Continue reading
On 30 September 2020, the European Commission adopted the 2020 Rule of Law Report, which presents a synthesis of the rule of law situation in the European Union (EU) and Member State-specific assessments. The Czech Helsinki Committee (CHC) alongside the … Continue reading
The Czech Helsinki Committee representatives participated on the 18th and 19th of June 2020 in the online General Assembly of the International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH). The meeting was gathering all members of the network to discuss about INACH … Continue reading
In October 2020, the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) called its members and close partners including the Czech Helsinki Committee (CHC) to express support tothe Collective Against Islamophobia (CCIF) in France and show international solidarity against the manifestation of structural … Continue reading
On the occasion of the World Children Day, UNICEF published on November 19th, 2020, its report “Averting a lost COVID generation”. The report provides more statistical information on the impact of the Covid-19 on children around the world. Health, social … Continue reading
On November 18th, 2020, the Council of Europe celebrated the European Day for the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. The goal of this day is to raise awareness about children sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. This … Continue reading
On November 18th, 2020, Eurochild published a report called “Growing up in lockdown: Europe’s children in the age of COVID-19”. This reports shares the impact of lockdowns imposed because of the Covid-19 crisis on children in 25 European countries, including … Continue reading
From November 18th to November 20th, 2020, Eurochild held online “breakfast webinars” on children’s rights, focusing on the importance of putting children at the core of the European Union’s (EU) recovery effort from the Covid-19 crisis. The CHC attended those … Continue reading
On November 20th, 2020, Child Rights Connect shared about its joint focus submission to the draft General Comment of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) “Children’s rights in relation to the digital environment” made in collaboration … Continue reading
On November 12th, 2020, Child Rights Connect published an article about the negotiations on a business and human rights treaty that took place at the end of October 2020. Thanks to the cooperation between the network, its members, and its … Continue reading
At the occasion of the 8th Anti-Bullying Week taking place from November 16th to November 20th, 2020, Children or Prisoners Europe launched a fundraising on the theme “Stop stigma associated with parental imprisonment” for this same period. Indeed, children with … Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the accompanying measures put in place to control it, are having a dramatic impact on some of Europe’s most vulnerable children, families and communities, compounding structural weaknesses in child protection and welfare systems. In the long-term, the socio-economic impact of … Continue reading
Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has entrusted Vice President for Democracy and Demography to launch a comprehensive Child Rights Strategy. The upcoming Child Rights Strategy is expected to be launched at the beginning of 2021. The partners of the … Continue reading
This year’s INACH annual konference was about antisemitism. It is not the first time INACH has covered this subject. In 2016, INACH organized the first conference on online antisemitism in Jerusalem, Israel. That conference was a great success. 130 participants … Continue reading