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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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