The plan is to be implemented by the end of the year by city councillor for social policy Jiri Janecek (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS). However, it includes too many reprisals and sometimes it contradicts basic human rights, Dagmar Kocmankova, director of the magazine Novy Prostor (New Space) whose yields goes for the support to the homeless, told CTK today. "The Town Hall wants to UNESCO praises Prague for care of its historic core ...
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Projects ... approach the people who have been in the streets in the long run in a repressive way," Kocmankova said, adding that the Town Hall did not want to integrate them in normal life, but to get them out of the capital. Kocmankova said she was opposed to the plan to introduce a central registry of the needy. "We think it clashes with basic human rights if some people are to be entered in a data base with their personal data to be stored for ten years.
It is basically unclear how they will get out of it," she added. However, the plan has some positive aspects, she added. "It is a good thing that an outpatient service will be established that will move across Prague and provide medical care to the homeless," Kocmankova said. Janecek said there were an estimated 2,000 homeless people in Prague. Due to their health problems, it cannot be ruled out that they may cause some epidemics, he added. Hence the objective of "evicting" them from the Prague centre and public transportation. The plan, that uses foreign experiences, will become the first comprehensive scheme of the solution to the problem of the homeless in the Czech Republic, Janecek said. Ilja Hradecky, head of the civic group Nadeje (Hope) that also deals with the Prague homeless, said a poll had been conducted which confirmed xenophobia against the homeless in the public. However, evicting them from the streets is no solution to their difficult situation, Hradecky said.
(Ceske Noviny)
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