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Promoting Affordable Birth Control in Slovakia
On September 25, the Center and its Slovak partners organized a seminar in Bratislava, Slovakia on the affordability of birth control. Many Slovak women are unable to get birth control because of its high cost. [...]
Proposed Amendments Relating to Abortion in Slovakia
The Slovak Parliament has recently passed amendments to the abortion law that would restrict access to legal abortion services. The Center and its partners are steadfastly advocating against their passage. In early June 2009, the [...]
Letter to Slovak Government Re: Amendments to Abortion Law
Dear Honorable: Prime Minister of the Government of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico Deputy Prime Minister for Knowledge-based Society, European Affairs, Human Rights and Minorities, Dušan Čaplovič Minister of Health Care, Richard Raši Minister [...]
Roma Women Win Justice at European Court of Human Rights
Today, the European Court of Human Rights found that Slovakia had violated the human rights of eight Roma women who had been denied information about their reproductive health. The women in the case, K.H. [...]
Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic Consideration of the Constitutionality of the challenged provisions of the Act on Artificial Interruption of Pregnancy
Filing date: April 2007Country/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 [...]
Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic Consideration: Amicus brief (Slovak)
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 [...]
Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic Consideration: Amicus brief (English)
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 [...]
Center Submission for the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ Review of Slovakia (2002)
Concluding Observations: Slovakia_CESCR_2002_English
Center Submission for the Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s Review of Slovakia (2004)
Concluding Observations: Slovakia_CERD_2004_English
CEDAW calls on Slovakia to Address Forced Sterilization and Refusals of Care
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, [...]
