Tuesday, March 22 @ 5 p.m.

Gwendolyn Albert on: The Roma and Human Rights in the Czech Republic

The Roma minority has been the target of racist violence throughout
Central Europe for centuries. This lecture will detail the Roma
situation since the events of 1989 and their future in the Czech
Republic and the EU.


 

Gwendolyn Albert, a native Californian, first came to Prague as a
Fulbright scholar in 1989, participating in the Velvet Revolution
as a translator for Civic Forum. Since returning to the Czech
Republic in 1994 she has been an activist on Roma issues, starting
with the cause of the Lety concentration camp in 1995
(http://cestiromove.ecn.cz/). She co-founded the Kosovo Roma
Refugee Foundation in 2002 (http://krrf.tripod.com) and in 2004 was
elected the first-ever Director of the League of Human Rights
(http://llp.cz), a Czech civic association which addresses violent
human rights violations in the Czech Republic through free legal
aid to victims.