This thesis deals with the issue of vulnerable children. This topic is very current as a legal reform on social and legal protection of children was adopted in 2013 promoting the development of children in a family environment by professionalization of the foster care. The reform should help reduce the number of children in institutional care, as the Czech Republic ranks at the top of the list while assigning children into institutions, compared to other developed countries in the European Union. The aim of this work is to analyze the funding of foster care and care of children in orphanages by government and by private incomes. The theoretical part describes the state social policy concerning the care of vulnerable children and describes the types of non-profit organizations working in this area. The practical part analyzes and compares the types of the care of vulnerable children in terms of institutional arrangements and financing. The thesis also examines what the costs are for both a child in foster care and a child placed in orphanages.

This thesis provides an analysis and comparison of the EU and national legislation concerning protection for pregnant employees from termination of employment. The main goal of this thesis is comparison of the legal protection based on the Council Directive 92/85/EHS and other legal elements incorporated in the Act no. 262/2006 Labour Code. Pregnant woman is in very specific position in terms of employment relations, and she is considered to be a weaker party. Nevertheless, regular employee is also considered to be a weaker party, but in comparison of the legal protection between employee and pregnant employee, we will unambiguously conclude, that level of protection is considerably higher for the pregnant employee then for the regular one. And it is for a legitimate reason since a pregnant employee, during pregnancy and maternity, is endangered not only from the physiology perspective but also from social security perspective. For this reason, the legal acts concerning position of the pregnant employee, in the national or European level, are mostly in their favour. Simultaneously this thesis mentions some of the important judgements, in which courts are once again mostly in favour of pregnant employee. This thesis analyses the level of protection of those employees and evaluates the sufficiency...

Legal regulation of forest protection in the context of bark beetle outbreak and climate change The aim of this thesis is to analyse current legal regulation of forest protection in Czech law, primarily areas related to ongoing bark beetle outbreak with the focus on forest management. In the interest of presenting the topic in its broader context, elementary aspects of forestry and other nature sciences are briefly discussed. Author also evaluates and gives his opinions on the current legal regulation and its imperfections throughout the thesis. The thesis is divided into four main parts. The first part serves as a brief introduction into the subject matter of the thesis i.e. legal regulation regarding forest protection. The first chapter of this part discusses the term "forest" from the point of view of natural sciences and details the importance of forest and different forest functions. Second chapter of the first part discusses factors harmful to forests, mainly bark beetles, droughts and climate change and the concurrent effect of those factors. Second part of the thesis maps the evolution of Czech legal regulation and tries to find parallels between previous and today's legal regulation. Oldest discussed legal document is the Maiestas Carolina of the 14th century. Thesis then moves on to the...

Legal aspects of tourism and sport in Krkonoše mountains national park Abstract This presented thesis analyse law regulation concerning protection of National Parks in against negative Influence of tourism and sport. Assessing impact of tourism on essential pillars (principles) of sustainable development I tried to find out if the preservation and protection of national Parks in The Czech Republic within Czech legislation is adequate. Content of the thesis of eight chapters is definition of terminology used in this thesis, listing of sources of legal regulation and means of protection of nature at National Parks and comparison of specific legal regulation of KRNAP and KPN. At the end of thesis the essential findings of the analyses are summarised. The aim of this thesis is to find a compromise between effective legal regulation and over-regulation of tourist and sport activities in National Parks. Key words: national park, tourism, legal protection, environment

In the latest years, European governments have increasingly criminalized providing support to displaced people. Humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGO) carrying out life-saving search and rescue (SAR) activities in the Mediterranean Sea have been facing wide obstacles in aiding newcomers, and in many instances have been subject to criminal proceedings. This research attempts to analyse the reasons why maritime sea rescue is equated with illegality. In doing so, it seeks to answer the question, “what are the challenges to reaching legal protection for humanitarian aid workers carrying out search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean when faced with criminalization?” The study argues that humanitarian aid workers (HAW) who have been criminalized as a result of their involvement in maritime sea rescue activities, have to endure many systemic deficiencies. Three layers of interrelated challenges are identified: legal, socio-political, and personal challenges. The study concludes that an independent, quality legal defence; a revisitation of the voluntary nature of the humanitarian exemption clause in the 2002 Facilitation Package; and a larger engagement of civil society actors in changing the narrative and improving the public’s practical knowledge of migration would ensure better protection for humanitarian practitioners involved in search and rescue activities. / <p>It was online.</p>

This thesis is a qualitative probe into the story of a temporary foster mother. The thesis captures, analyses and classifies this story into systemic context. It does so with an emphasis on the temporary foster mother's personal experience and also with using personal experience of other participants involved in this particular case - including mine. This thesis is largely a reflection of my own role in this story, it is looking at it from different perspectives that evolve over time. The thesis is grounded in theoretical sources, especially methodologies of temporary foster care and methodological recommendations. Theoretical sources are critically viewed and connected to personal experience. The resulting storytelling, which provides an insight into the wider context of temporary foster care in the Czech Republic, was based on this procedure. Capturing systemic context is used in this thesis to create suggestions for possible systemic improvements.

Cette recherche vise à fonder les droits des animaux non humains (ou humains) d’une manière hobbesienne. Cette manière est celle du droit naturel (ou jusnaturalisme). Nous montrons tout d'abord pourquoi le droit naturel est un cadre normatif spécifique qui doit être distingué de tout autre système normatif, en particulier de la morale ou de l’éthique. Dans un contexte hobbesien, les droits des animaux non humains ne sont pas des droits moraux mais des droits naturels. Nous montrons ensuite comment on peut écarter grâce au droit naturel toute morale défavorable aux animaux non humains. En fondant les droits naturels des animaux non humains, cette recherche poursuit des travaux déjà engagés sur la voie hobbesienne. Mais nous relions plus particulièrement la question des droits naturels des animaux non humains à la question de savoir quel type de protection juridique doit leur être accordé en vertu d’arguments de type hobbesien. Nous montrons finalement pourquoi l’égalité animale est une nécessité juridique dans le contexte d’une défense jusnaturaliste des animaux non humains, ce qui se traduit en droit positif par leur personnification juridique anthropomorphique. / This research aims to ground nonhuman (or human) animal rights in a Hobbesian way. This is that of natural law (i.e., jusnaturalism). First, we show why natural law is a specific normative framework that should be distinguished from any other normative system, especially morals or ethics. In a Hobbesian framework, nonhuman animal rights are not moral rights but natural rights. We show then how any morals detrimental to nonhuman animals can be eliminated through natural law. By grounding nonhuman animals’ natural rights, this research pushes forward works already engaged in this Hobbesian manner. But we relate more particularly the nonhuman animals’ natural rights issue to the question of what kind of legal protection they should be granted on the basis of Hobbesian-like arguments. Finally, we show why animal equality is a legal necessity in the context of a jusnaturalist defense of nonhuman animals, which legally results in their anthropomorphic legal personification.

The diploma thesis named Introducing quality standards for social and legal protection of children from the point of view of social workers of the institution of social and legal protection of children enables an insight into the issue of how social workers of the institution of social and legal protection of children view the introduction of quality standards for social and legal protection of children. The amendment of Act No. 359/1999 Coll., on social and legal protection of children, has brought significant changes in the activity of institutions of social and legal protection (OSPOD / BSLPC), especially in the field of applying instruments of social work. The conditions for a quality performance of the contents of this responsible work are created by means of standardisation. Standardisation means determining obligatory procedures in the performance of particular management activities as well as minimum parameters for a quality performance thereof (Macela, 2012). The thesis is divided into several parts. The first chapter defines the basic terms of the subject in question. The thesis is devised theoretically and draws on relevant professional literature. It deals with the specifications of social and legal protection of children (SLPC), what kinds of principles of social and legal protection of children there are, the SLPC social workers, the conditions for the performance of the profession of SLPC social workers. Further, the chapter explains terms of quality, social work, the family and the child. It defines perception and which factors may influence perception. Appropriate attention is given to the legislation of quality standards for the institutions of social and legal protection of children, the content and objective of quality standards of the institutions of social and legal protection of children, the process of standardisation and the availability of social and legal protection and the conditions for the performance thereof. The second chapter determines the objective of the thesis and research questions. The third chapter characterises the set examined and the methodology of work chosen for this purpose, the techniques of collecting data, analysis of data and the realisation of the actual research, including the ethics of the research. The fourth chapter deals with the outcomes of the thesis. The main objective of the thesis was to identify how social workers perceive the introduction of quality standards for social and legal protection of children. To achieve the objective of the thesis, I chose the strategy of the qualitative research, method of questioning and the technique of a semi-structured interview. The interviews were realised in the course of July 2016 in the research sample of ten staff members of the institution of social and legal protection of children who work at the position of a SLPC social worker in communities with extended powers, situated in the Region of South Bohemia. The communication partners were chosen by the method of purposive sampling. Based on the objective of the thesis two research questions were set up: Which factors influence the perception of social workers of the institution of social and legal protection of children within the introduction of quality standards for social and legal protection of children? Which aspects of the introduction of quality standards for social and legal protection of children are perceived by social workers of the institution of social and legal protection of children as positive or negative? As has emerged from the research, the changes resulting from the introduction of the standards that social workers of the institution of social and legal protection of children regarded as positive included the improvement in workplace equipment and setting a limit for the number of families that a social worker may work with at one time. The majority of social workers gave a positive evaluation to the introduction of supervision. Work quality has been d

Čížková, B. (2011). International standards Quality for Children in the practice of the social and legal protection of children in the Czech republic. Praha: Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Master's Degree Thesis. The object of this work is to identify the weaknesses of the current system of the alternative care by comparing casuistry with the standards of quality. I use casuistry of the current or former clients of foster care. In the first part I put the topic of social and legal protection of children into context of international and constitutional documents. There is also a chapter about the Standars Quality4Children. Then I focus on the situation in the Czech republic. I start with the descripction of the current system and finish with the process of transformation of the system of care for children at risk. The bill changing the Act No. 359/1999 Coll. on the social and legal protection of children was published. It is the first step to the transformartion and it's necessary to be followed-up other steps. The actual explorative empirical part of this work is conducted by a qualitative research strategy. The empirical investigation was executed in form of interviews with twelve respondents. Research sample consists of two social workers (from authority for social and legal protection of...

In the diploma work, there are examined domain names, which have become, due to a mass development of the Internet, an economically very valuable estate. Domain names lack, although being a generally known notion, any legal anchoring in the Czech system of law. The absence of legal regulation of domain names is not an anomaly of the Czech legal environment, but it can also be seen in the states with advanced legal culture. Domain names fulfill, in addition to being a very valuable commercial article, identification and/or promotional functions. Just for those reasons, the domain names need to be provided a corresponding legal protection. The introductory part of the diploma work, containing an introduction into the issues of domain names, addresses technical aspects of domain names and the method of their hierarchical structuring. Further, the diploma work contains a list of institutions which play, in the area of domain names, an important role for various reasons. The historical development of the institutions, their organization, and activity contents are briefly described. Then the legal nature of domain names is examined and a question whether a domain name can be considered to be a thing/item, right and/or any other asset value is answered. Furthermore, the diploma work contains a description...