In the poll that was conducted by the GfK polling agency on 1810 respondents aged between 18 and 90, one-tenth of respondents said they experienced gender discrimination, CzechRep to again send a reserve company to Kosovo ...
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Largest number of children since 1993 born in CzechRep last year ... and six percent said they came across discrimination in health care. "People around 30 are the group in which the risk of being exposed to discrimination is the least," Vidoviiova told CTK, adding that among the respondents aged 18-29 and 50-69, one-fifth of respondents experienced discrimination because of age. One-third of people said they lost jobs due to age discrimination, compared to a quarter that said this five years ago. An overwhelming majority of respondents, 92 percent, believe that age plays a role for job admission, compared to 77 percent five years ago. More than half of respondents, 54 percent, believe that people over 60 should not occupy political posts. One in six respondents firmly believes that the elderly draw money from the state coffers that young people would like to have. According to European comparison from 2006, some 48 percent of respondents in 25 EU countries think that age discrimination occurs very seldom while 46 percent hold the opposite view. In the Czech Republic, 63 percent of respondents said age discrimination was widespread. While about half of respondents in the EU said age discrimination had not increased in the past five years, 53 percent of Czech respondents believed the opposite. Almost one-third of Czech respondents said they did not know how to battle age discrimination. An anti-discrimination law is still lacking in the Czech Republic though the country should have passed it upon its admission to the EU in 2004. The Czech Republic is thus the last EU country not to have passed such a law and it faces sanctions. President Vaclav Klaus recently vetoed an anti-discrimination bill and the Chamber of Deputies will hold a debate on his veto in June.
(Ceske Noviny)
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