We must not forget
We still live in a civilized cultural society that made the Holocaust possible. And it didn’t stop it. When the Holocaust occurred, people refused to believe the facts before their eyes. Even today, our perception … Read more »
Thoughts
We lack values such as solidarity, cooperation and consideration for others
Great literature is always contemporary. It is not closed. It strives to impress as much as possible in every presence, it comes to life every time the reader opens the book. It is important to … Read more »
We are alive and share the same planet with all
The invisible coronavirus, as we witness, is a social virus, because it revealed the weaknesses of politicians and of our system. —Radka Denemarková An essay on Taiwan in the Slovenian magazine Razpotja. Radka Denemarková: Živi … Read more »
Signing of the Istanbul Convention
Signing the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence must be a matter of course for us! It is part of the protection of human rights worldwide. So that people … Read more »
International Women’s Day
The swallows fly and chirp. They share jokes about men and women. Sex is a joy. Repeating the same jokes century after century, they collect contributions to the history of joy. They chance upon a … Read more »
The war in Ukraine is a war for all of us
VIDEO. Speech by Czech writer Radka Denemarková in support of Ukraine. The war in Ukraine is a war of all of us. It is a fight for values such as peace, human rights, democracy and … Read more »
It’s normal to help each other
Young people act, they help purposefully. While politicians have been indifferent to the situation in Ukraine for eight years. A few minutes ago, my son Jan picked up a Ukrainian family from Kiev at the … Read more »
I’m shouting with the Ukrainian soldiers from Viper Island
We are watching the sacrifice of Ukraine live (since 2014). Aggression, war, arrogance of power. NO ONE is helping Ukraine. We are watching the failure of the European Union and European politicians. Russia and China … Read more »
No War!
Statement on Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine. Initiative of International Literature Festival Berlin. It is not acceptable that more than eighty years after the Munich Agreement, threats of invasion of foreign sovereign territory are again on … Read more »
How to break free from the totalitarian constructs of the world
“How to break free from the totalitarian constructs of the world. Totalitarian relations are not politics. They’re not gourds. Russia is still dormant in the giant Soviet Union, a superpower, and the attitude towards the … Read more »
New Year’s message
I wish the new year a cool head worldwide, clear mind, bold thinking and the protection of human rights and freedoms. The truth at this time is so hazy and hidden, and the lie so … Read more »
(čeština) Do Běloruska se vrací stalinismus | CNN Prima News
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Memorial: Moscow shuts down chronicler of Soviet-era crimes
MOSCOW, Dec 28, 2021 (Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the country’s best-known human rights group on Tuesday to be liquidated for breaking a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents, capping a year … Read more »
Freedom and Democracy Day
Everyone will be able to breathe better if we do not suffocate the truth. —Radka Denemarková
Democracy cannot function without public service media
“We need educated and smart journalists who confront politicians with facts. Politicians can’t tell fairy tales on their social networks.” More on Česká média portal (Czech)
‘Fokus Václava Moravce’ TV show
Where does civic obedience end? What will make the people rise? What are the chances of the uprising in democracy? ‘Fokus Václava Moravce’ TV show on the topic of Civil Disobedience, February 16th, 2021 on … Read more »
The virus gave us a choice – democracy, totalitarianism?
“The virus benefits the mafia thinking and organized crime of oligarchs who only think of their own companies. And the arrogant power inadvertently reveals the intention: to completely control life, to bone everything different, independent, … Read more »
Control over women’s bodies
The struggle of women in Poland, which these days are demonstrating against the return to the Middle Ages, is a struggle of all women in the world. It is a fight for human rights. Hours … Read more »
Božena Němcová on Freedom
“Freedom does not grow on a hillside, it is not walled up somewhere, it is not held in custody so that its shackles can be torn, you do not invoke freedom, and where it grows, … Read more »