About us

The Czech Helsinki Committee is a non-governmental non-profit organisation for human rights.

The main mission of the Czech Helsinki Committee consists primarily in the following

• Monitoring legislative activities concerning human and citizen rights. Presenting experts opinions on bills and presenting alternative proposals, provided that they are related to protection of human and citizen rights.
• Monitoring the state of human rights in the Czech Republic with special emphasis on selected areas. Regular preparation of reports on the state of human rights in the Czech Republic.
• Monitoring the situation of those groups of population, in whose case protection of rights requires special attention.
• Free legal counselling for citizens, whose human rights were violated. Litigation.
• Education on human rights, organisation of discussions and human rights seminars. Training programmes for professional groups as well as employees and activists of non-governmental organisations. Publication activities.
• Informational and documentation activities; library services.

Main areas of focus:

• Rights of the child
  
• Fight against racism and intolerance
  
• Penitential system / prisons; rights of prisoners and detained persons
• Social counselling
  
• Human rights education
  
• Developing of human rights library
  

The CHC Board of Trustees in 2010:

Anna Šabatová, Chair
Ivan Štampach, Vice-Chair
Pavla Burdová-Hradečná
Hana Havelková
Marie Hradečná
Daniela Světlíková
Petra Zhřívalová

Basic Information:

Czech Helsinki Committee (CHC)
The initial registration date: 11. 05. 1990
Legal form:  701  (Association)
Reg.  No.:  00539708
Address:  Štefánikova 21, 150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic
Bank account: ČSOB  Prague 1, Account no.  108 433 / 0300