The assessment of human rights observance in the Czech Republic is to be released in June, according to the Czech mission in Geneva. The Czech Republic is Czechs want to help create European care for elderly policy ...
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radar treaty to include chapter on link with NATO ... one of the first 16 states that the council assesses within the regular evaluation of human rights observance in particular U.N. member countries. The council reviews after four years how particular countries react to its recommendations. The Czech Republic has submitted to the council a national report saying that it fulfils its human rights commitments and enumerating the measures it has taken in this respect. The U.N. council's report is accompanied by reports by Amnesty International (AI) and other NGOs and groups that monitor human rights observance in the Czech Republic. AI wrote in its report that Romanies continue to be discriminated against in the Czech Republic and that mentally handicapped people are still placed in cage beds. In its report that CTK has at its disposal AI also points to policemen abusing their powers and to women undergoing forced sterilisation. The objections and recommendations by the council will be summed up in a report that is to be approved on Friday.
(Ceske Noviny)
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