Filing date: April 2007 Country/Region: Slovakia Center Attorney(s): Christina Zampas Partners: 1) International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic of the City University of New York School of Law, 2) Slovak Family Planning Association, and 3) ProChoice Slovakia
Úvod1. Tieto písomné pripomienky predkladá Centrum pre reprodukčné práva v New York City a Právna klinika medzinárodných ženských ľudských práv pri Právnickej fakulte City University v New Yorku v spolupráci so Slovenskou spoločnosťou pre plánované rodičovstvo a Možnostou voľby, Slovensko.2. Tieto pripomienky vychádzajú z judikatúry Európskeho systému ľudských práv, ako aj z rozhodnutí a zákonov […]
Introduction1. These written comments are submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic at the City University of New York School of Law, in cooperation with the Slovak Family Planning Association and Slovakia Pro Choice.2. These comments rely on the jurisprudence of the European Human Rights System, as […]
Concluding Observations: Slovakia_CESCR_2002_English https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sl_Slovakia_2002.pdf
Concluding Observations: Slovakia_CERD_2004_English https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pdf_ww_CERDletter2.pdf
Slovakia must take urgent action to prevent Roma women from being sterilized without prior and informed consent. This was a key concluding observation from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which reviewed Slovakia on July 2. The Committee called on the government of Slovakia to better monitor public and private […]
Commissioner for Human Rights Calls on Slovak Government to Accept Responsibility for Failing to Protect Women from Illegal Sterilizations and to Enact Laws to End Practice On October 29, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe concluded that “it can reasonably be assumed” that Romani women in Slovakia were sterilized without their […]
At the conclusion of a criminal investigation tainted by strong-arm tactics, the Slovak Deputy Prime Minister of Human Rights and Minorities Pál Csáky rejected the findings of a human rights report that documented 110 cases of Romani women who were forcibly and coercively sterilized in public hospitals in eastern Slovakia. “The continued harassment and intimidation […]
Amnesty International, Center for Reproductive Rights, European Roma Rights Center,Human Rights Watch, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Today, nine international human rights groups joined forces to urge Slovakia to conduct an impartial and adequate investigation of illegal sterilizations of Romani women. In a joint statement, the groups urged the Slovak government to address serious […]
Romani women in Slovakia continue to be subject to grave violations of their human rights, particularly their reproductive rights, even though a communist-era law offering monetary incentives for sterilization has been rescinded. A three-month fact-finding in late 2002 by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Poradna pre obcianske a ludské práva (Centre for Civil and […]