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Slovakia Court Compensates Gypsy Women


BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A court in Slovakia ruled three Gypsy women had their human rights violated when prosecutors shelved complaints about their illegal sterilization.

The Constitutional court ordered the women of the southeastern town of Kosice to be paid $1,865 each in damages, the Slovak Spectator weekly reported Monday.

The Gypsy women, two underage, underwent illegal sterilizations without their consent in a hospital between 1999 and 2002. Since then, on many occasions, the women appealed to the Kosice prosecutors' office claiming their human rights were violated, but were simply ignored.

They went to the Constitutional court that ruled in their favor in mid-December. The women are also seeking compensation for involuntary sterilization.

In 2004, the European Roma Rights Center in Budapest published allegations the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria were "solving problems" of the Gypsy minority through forced sterilization.

 

 





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