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Open Society Fund–Prague
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Open Society Fund–Prague seeks to promote humanistic values, education, and culture in the Czech Republic. Its most recent work has focused on the issues of anticorruption, antidiscrimination, migration, and gender equality.

The foundation has been a leader in working to foster a culture of inclusion in the Czech Republic, where issues around the rights of Roma and an increasing number of immigrants have grown more prominent. It has been involved with a long-standing movement to establish a national antidiscrimination act, supported several successful lawsuits that have helped end some forms of discrimination against Roma, and has been a key supporter of Roma nongovernmental organizations. On migration, the foundation has worked to improve the legal status of immigrants and challenge negative perceptions about them in the media.

Corruption is one of the country’s biggest challenges, and the foundation has been at the forefront of efforts to combat it—leading a network of nongovernmental organizations that has been instrumental in the passage of several new legal provisions aimed at preventing graft and lack of transparency.

Promoting women’s rights is another priority for the foundation, which has been a leading member of a coalition of groups working to secure equality in the labor market and initiate progressive change in educational curricula.

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Open Society Fund - Prague (Czech Republic)

Seifertova 47
130 00 Praha 3
Czech Republic
Phone: (420 2) 225-40979
Fax: (420 2) 225-40978
Email: osf@osf.cz
Executive Director: Ms. Marie Kopecka
Website:   http://osf.cz/

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