Re: Czech citizenship law

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 97 09:08:47 -0500
From: MINELRES moderator <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Czech citizenship law

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Original sender: Czech Helsinki Committee <[email protected]>

Re: Czech citizenship law


For others who might be interested:

Dear Mr. Britt,

I am answering your message to the MINELRES moderator. Thanks for your
interest in the Czech citizenship law.

I recommend you to see this address:
 http://www.psp.cz/docs/laws/1993/40_index.html (full text of the law) This
law has been adopted on 10.11.1993, changes were on 31.12.1993, 26.7.1995
and 23.5.1996.

Also, I advice you to see these pages: 
http://www.radio.cz/romove/situation.html (The Situation of the Roma after
November 1989) 

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/ihf/vienna96/12.htm ( OSCE Review Conference Vienna,
1996: Report by the International Helsinki Fed.)

Human rights reports on the Czech republic you can find here: http://www.ihf
-hr.org/AR97cze.htm#top (International Helsinki Federation
ANNUAL REPORT 1997 Czech Republic) 
http://www.usis.usemb.se/human/czechrep.html (U.S. Department of State The
Czech Republic Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996) 
Some reports were also published by the Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International, but I don't think they are available on-line for free. 

You could probably find some information in the English language Czech
newspaper Prague Post (http://www.praguepost.cz/) or the server
http://www.centraleurope.com/.

The Czech movement TOLERANCE has published several materials about the
citizenship law. We have them only in printed version, but if you contact
them (e-mail [email protected] or [email protected], tel. +420-2-2410 2361),
they would probably send it to you. Our commitee's Report has also a chapter
regarding the citizenship law. I can send it to you if you pass me your mail
address (eventually I can also send it as file by e-mail).

I wish you good luck in exploring this area,

Lucie Horakova, librarian of the Czech Helsinki Committee

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 Czech Helsinki Committee
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Moderator adds: as to HRW and AI reports. The list of Human Rights Watch
publications on Czech Republic can be found at 
http://www.hrw.org/research/czech.html 

Full text of the HRW recent report (June 1996) on Roma in Czech Republic is
available online at 
gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:5000/00/int/hrw/helsinki/czech/1

Amnesty International website (http;//www.amnesty.org) has a search engine
which can be used for search by keywords (it gives some 16 documents related
to Czech Repuiblic). 

Boris
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