On that, you may get a reply that the problem was solved in 1999. At least my search failed to find an article on recent thematising of the problem, and UNHRC states:
...in 1996 UNHCR assisted in the founding of a local NGO, Citizenship Advisory Center, which dealt with some eight thousands of individual cases in a period of more than two years. Using the legal expertise of UNHCR and the Citizenship Advisory Center, several amendments were made to the Citizenship Act, the last one in 1999, making it easier for the stateless persons to obtain Czech citizenship. While the issue of statelessness has been solved legally since 2001, the UNHCR has been operating a Pilot Roma Programme in order to address the problems and needs of Roma communities in the Czech Republic...
While the issue of statelessness has been solved legally since 2001, the UNHCR has been operating a Pilot Roma Programme in order to address the problems and needs of Roma communities in the Czech Republic...
Though the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance notes in its last report to date:
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11. ECRI is pleased to note that the Czech Parliament adopted the amendments to the Czech citizenship Law facilitating the procedure for acquiring citizenship for nationals of the former Czechoslovakia who were long-term residents on Czech territory. These amendments introduced an alternate procedure for such persons through which they have the possibility of opting for Czech citizenship by proving residency in the Czech Republic from the date of the split of former Czechoslovakia (31 December 1992). This alternate procedure has resolved the difficulties in acquiring Czech citizenship of most Roma that have been long-term residents on the territory of the Czech Republic. Those who continue to encounter difficulties largely include Roma having problems proving factual residency - primarily persons without a fixed job or place of residence - and Roma whose residency is considered to have been interrupted as they left the country for a period of time in order to attempt to seek asylum abroad. Recommendations: 12. ECRI recommends that the Czech authorities take the necessary action to resolve the remaining difficulties in acquiring citizenship encountered by Roma who were citizens of former Czechoslovakia and have been long-term or life-long residents on Czech territory. ECRI encourages the national authorities to adopt an approach that is as generous as possible, including towards those members of the Roma community who left the country applying for asylum. Criminal law provisions
11. ECRI is pleased to note that the Czech Parliament adopted the amendments to the Czech citizenship Law facilitating the procedure for acquiring citizenship for nationals of the former Czechoslovakia who were long-term residents on Czech territory. These amendments introduced an alternate procedure for such persons through which they have the possibility of opting for Czech citizenship by proving residency in the Czech Republic from the date of the split of former Czechoslovakia (31 December 1992). This alternate procedure has resolved the difficulties in acquiring Czech citizenship of most Roma that have been long-term residents on the territory of the Czech Republic. Those who continue to encounter difficulties largely include Roma having problems proving factual residency - primarily persons without a fixed job or place of residence - and Roma whose residency is considered to have been interrupted as they left the country for a period of time in order to attempt to seek asylum abroad.
Recommendations:
12. ECRI recommends that the Czech authorities take the necessary action to resolve the remaining difficulties in acquiring citizenship encountered by Roma who were citizens of former Czechoslovakia and have been long-term or life-long residents on Czech territory. ECRI encourages the national authorities to adopt an approach that is as generous as possible, including towards those members of the Roma community who left the country applying for asylum.
Criminal law provisions
In my earlier confrontation of darin, I noted as problems remaining in 2000 the status of Roma who emigrated in the meantime and came back, I haven't found anything on this.
You may ask her about statistics for the actual elimination of the problem, though. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
Now I did, though no statistics.
European Roma Rights Centre [pdf!]:
12 December 2006 WRITTEN COMMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN ROMA RIGHTS CENTRE AND VZÁJEMNÉ SOUŽITÍ CONCERNING THE CZECH REPUBLIC FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AT ITS 70th SESSION ...Nevertheless, certain categories of persons - most notably anyone who left the country for any period of time between 1993 and 1999 - are still excluded from access to citizenship other than via naturalization procedures. This group includes persons who went to Slovakia for medical treatment or to give birth among relatives because at that time they had no access to any citizenship, or only to Slovak citizenship. In addition, those Roma who were forced to become "Slovaks" as a result of the Czech citizenship law may today face systematic discrimination as a result, for example, of local rules denying families social housing where one member of the family is a "foreigner" or similar. The Czech government has never undertaken any serious study of the situation of persons forced to be "Slovaks" as a result of the 1993 citizenship law and the current situations of exclusion they may be facing now, and so no policy measures exist to address these problems.
...Nevertheless, certain categories of persons - most notably anyone who left the country for any period of time between 1993 and 1999 - are still excluded from access to citizenship other than via naturalization procedures. This group includes persons who went to Slovakia for medical treatment or to give birth among relatives because at that time they had no access to any citizenship, or only to Slovak citizenship. In addition, those Roma who were forced to become "Slovaks" as a result of the Czech citizenship law may today face systematic discrimination as a result, for example, of local rules denying families social housing where one member of the family is a "foreigner" or similar. The Czech government has never undertaken any serious study of the situation of persons forced to be "Slovaks" as a result of the 1993 citizenship law and the current situations of exclusion they may be facing now, and so no policy measures exist to address these problems.
