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Press release: As the Slovak Government apologizes for forcible sterilizations of Romani women today, the next step must be compensating them
The Slovak Government adopted a resolution in which it apologized to Romani women for forced sterilizations and condemned the practice. Our NGO welcomes the Resolution but highlights that Slovakia must also compensate Romani women in order to meet the obligation under international human rights standards.
Submission to the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities cocnerning Slovakia
In September 2021, we sent a submission to the Advisory Committee for the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, in which we describe shortcomings in the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by the Slovak government in relation to the Roma minority in Slovakia.
Press release: Slovakia must finally come to terms with the practice of illegal sterilization. We owe justice to injured Roma women
State authorities in Slovakia are paying increased attention to the need to compensate illegally sterilized women. The Slovak government is also being called upon to take systemic measures by the Ombudswoman and international bodies, and these days the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights.
Press release: Illegally sterilized Roma women in the Czech Republic are close to compensation - injured Roma women from Slovakia are still waiting
On Friday, 4 June 2021, the lower house of the Czech parliament passed a bill on compensation for illegally sterilized persons. Based on it, a number of Roma women in the Czech Republic who had been harmed by this practice in the past could be financially compensated.
Press statement to the acquittal of the second Roma man from Moldava nad Bodvou of false accusations charges
the District Court Košice finally discontinued criminal proceedings also against the second Roma men from Moldava nad Bodvou, whom we successfully represented before the European Court of Human Rights.
THE PRESS STATEMENT TO DROPPING CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST ONE OF THE ROMANI MAN FACING POLICE VIOLENCE DURING A POLICE RAID IN MOLDAVA NAD BODVOU
Okresný súd Košice I. na dnešnom pojednávaní definitívne zastavil trestné konanie vedené voči prvému z poškodených Rómov z Moldavy nad Bodvou, ktorých sme úspešne zastupovali na Európskom súde pre ľudské práva v Štrasburgu.
Press release: European Court in Strasbourg: Slovakia insufficiently investigated police violence against three Roma boys
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECtHR) ruled on a case of police violence against three Roma boys that occurred in a police car during their transfer to a police station in Košice, Eastern Slovakia, in 2009.
JUDGMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COURT IN A CASE M.B. and Others V. SLOVAKIA
The European Court of Human Rights by its judgment in the case of M.B. and Others v. Slovakia of 1 April 2021 ruled that Slovakia had violated the right of three Roma boys to an effective investigation into the police violence they objected.
Press release: The police officers accused of abusing Roma boys at a police station in Košice are innocent
The Regional Court in Kosice at today's public hearing dismissed the Prosecutor´s appeal against the acquittal judgment of the District Court Košice II of 4 December 2019 in a widely medialised case of ill-treatment against six Roma boys at a police station in Košice.
Joint statement to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe pointing at shortcomings in investigating the racial motive of police violence cases in Slovakia
In November 2020, together with partner NGOs European Roma Rights Centre and Forum for Human Rights, we sent our joint statement to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, in which we point out the insufficient implementation of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case - Lakatošová and Lakatoš v. Slovakia.