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Ciglerova Challenges Czech Views on Sex Roles

By Wency Leung ● Uncategorized ● January 23, 2009

The Czech Republic has just assumed the rotating presidency of the EU. One of its outspoken female journalists says the country lags on women’s rights. “There is absolutely no pro-women culture,” says Jana Ciglerova.

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Project Lifts Curtain on East Bloc Women’s Past

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Uncategorized ● February 27, 2006

The untold stories of everyday women in the former Soviet bloc are being brought out from behind the curtain of obscurity. A women’s oral history project has been going on for 10 years and spans at least eight countries.

Czech Exhibit Shows Ads That Degrade Women

By Dinah A. Spritzer ● Uncategorized ● September 25, 2005

Prague is hosting a photography exhibit that documents the sexually degrading ads that pervade the city. Women’s rights activists say it’s a chance to talk about a subject that receives little critical attention in the former Soviet bloc.

Sterilized Roma Say They Did Not Consent

By Dinah A. Spritzer ● Uncategorized ● July 24, 2005

Roma women in the Czech Republic say the communist practice of sterilizing “undesirables” survived beyond 1989. Authors of a government report on the charges, due out soon, acknowledge flaws with the medical-consent procedures.

In Czech Schools, B Is for Biased Books

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Arts & Culture ● June 15, 2005

A Czech initiative to study schoolbooks for gender bias wrapped up late last year. Activists see the government effort as a step in the right direction. Seventh in a series on women and education.

Miami Latinas Creating Haven from Abuse

By Belisa Vranich ● Politics ● August 5, 2004

Advocates working against domestic violence say some of the hardest women to reach are migrant Latina women. One organization in Florida, which offers one-stop services and Spanish-speaking counselors, provides a model for outreach success.

Czech Republic, Germany Battle Over Sex Traffic

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Uncategorized ● March 26, 2004

As the May deadline for the Czech Republic’s European Union entry approaches, the issue of girls and prostitution along the border between Germany and the Czech Republic has become a source of controversy.