scholarly journals Disability Law in the Czech Republic: A Case Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitka Sinecka
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Current State ◽  
Disability Law ◽  
Czech Society ◽  
Rights Issue

The Czech Republic has been in transition from communism to democracy since 1989. How disability has been defined and understood in Czech society is described in political, social and cultural context. The state of law and disability policy is illustrated by a case study involving a mother with a disabled son who had to be placed in an institution due to the lack of financial resources. The case is described as an insight into the current state of disability law and its interpretation in the Czech Republic. This case is examined as a human rights issue and it is argued that the transition from medical model and welfare law to a civil and human rights law, with regard to people with disabilities, has not yet been completed in the Czech Repulic.

Twenty Years After

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Šárka Waisová ◽  
Linda Piknerová
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Czech Society ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

However obsolete it may appear in the environment of the post-1989 Czech Republic, dissident activity has left its imprint on Czech society and politics. In Czech foreign policy, there is something like a dissident tradition, which dissidents themselves seem to uphold. In the Czech foreign policy process, there exists an explicit mechanism that has incorporated the dissident tradition, which, in quite a few cases, has affected policy outcomes. The introduction of the dissident tradition into Czech foreign policy was facilitated by the dissidents’ great concern for foreign policy and for human rights issues, and, in particular, for human rights issues outside the Czech Republic. We present evidence that dissidents have been concerned with foreign policy and with human rights issues by analyzing the membership of parliamentary committees of both chambers of the Parliament as well as the dissidents’ activities in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Significantly, when activities tied to the dissident tradition emerge in the Parliament, the initiators of such activities are always (although not exclusively) dissidents; the opponents, always nondissidents.

scholarly journals Macroeconomic implication of the floods – a case study for the regions of the Czech Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 289-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Soukopová ◽  
Lenka Furová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Capital City ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
Damage Structure ◽  
Fixed Capital Formation ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
Czech Society ◽  
The Impact

Floods are natural events with extensive impact on property and life of affected people. They significantly came in 1997 into the life of Czech society and since then has caused damage almost 172 billion CZK. The paper focuses on the assessment of impact of floods from 1997 to 2010 on economic level of each region. The impact is assessed on basis of development of the basic macroeconomic indicators such as GDP and economic level of regions, change in fixed capital formation, sales of industrial products and unemployment. The basic idea is to show how much floods have influenced region’s economy and if it depends more on the amount of flood damages or nature of damage (structure within infrastructure). 13 regions of the Czech Republic except Prague were chosen for the analysis. Prague was excluded from the analysis because of its specific status (capital city and the region) and economic conditions among regions in the Czech Republic (higher GDP per capita than the national average).

Reservations to Human Rights Treaties: A Case Study on the Practice of Czechoslovakia and Its Successor States

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Týč ◽  
Linda Janků ◽  
Katarína Šipulová
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
Standard Component ◽  
International Human ◽  
Human Rights Norms

Conformity with human rights norms is currently a standard component of democratic states’ policies. However, this conformity is reflected not only in domestic binding catalogues of human rights embodied in constitutions, but also in the continuous rise of international control and treaty commitments. States are widely expected to commit to and ratify international human rights documents. Nevertheless, a great deal of the research on state commitments disregards the effects and changes which might be brought upon these ratifications by the submission of reservations. This article proposes an in-depth analysis of state commitments and the practice of submitting reservations in two case studies: the Czech Republic and Slovakia, together with their common predecessor, communist (and, briefly, democratic) Czechoslovakia, and maps the way these regimes, in their different stages of transitional development, worked with reservations. This contribution has been elaborated within the framework of the project „International Human Rights Obligations of the Czech Republic: Trends, Practice, Causes and Consequences“, GA13-27956S, supported by the Czech Science Foundation GAČR.

The Czech Republic in the UN Human Rights Council 2011 – 2014

2019 ◽  
pp. 247-265
Author(s):  
Lucie Hanzlíčková ◽  
Irena Melounová ◽  
Štěpánka Zemanová
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Human Rights Council

Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Commonality and Diversity”. 21–22 May 2019. Session “Linguistics”

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 295-297
Author(s):  
Sergej A. Borisov
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
International Context ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

For more than twenty years, the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences celebrates the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture with a traditional scholarly conference.”. Since 2014, it has been held in the young scholars’ format. In 2019, participants from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Togliatti, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, and Rostov-on-Don, as well as Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania continued this tradition. A wide range of problems related to the history of the Slavic peoples from the Middle Ages to the present time in the national, regional and international context were discussed again. Participants talked about the typology of Slavic languages and dialects, linguo-geography, socio- and ethnolinguistics, analyzed formation, development, current state, and prospects of Slavic literatures, etc.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Readiness and Resilience of Czech Society against Water-Related Crises

Hydrology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Štěpán Kavan ◽  
Šárka Kročová ◽  
Jiří Pokorný
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Internal Environment ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Triangle Method ◽  
Czech Society ◽  
The Individual

This assessment of societal readiness and resilience to water-related situations in the Czech Republic focuses on an interdisciplinary approach in the Czech Republic for solving this problem. The goal of the article is to evaluate and characterize the preparedness for handling water-related crises. The analysis is carried out via a SWOT analysis, which is a universal analytical method used to understand and interpret strengths and weaknesses and to identify opportunities and threats. For the calculation of the weight factor of the SWOT analysis, an assessment was determined based on the multicriteria analysis. The pair comparison method was used to determine the relative importance of the parameters of the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The Fuller Triangle method was chosen for the system used to make the comparisons of the individual criteria. The uniqueness of the study consists of the issue of water management, which is thus reflected from a non-traditional perspective, being a contemporary model—the paradigm of the view on the preparedness of the planning documentation as one of the characteristics of societal resilience for water-related crises. The result of the research is the fact that a positive approach prevails in the researched area from the perspective of preparedness for water-related crises. For the creation of the conditions, the factors arising from the internal environment currently prevail slightly over those arising from the external environment.

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