These days we have sent our report to the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The Committee will assess the Slovak Government’s implementation of the Framework Convention in the coming time.

We informed the Advisory Committee about the many ongoing shortcomings in the protection of the rights of Roma minority our country. We follow particularly from our intensive monitoring in excluded Roma communities and from our strategic litigation. We point out, among other things, that the Slovak Government has still not taken effective measures to ensure:

  • full access to justice for forcibly sterilized women, including adequate compensation,
  • effective investigation of cases of police violence, including its possible racial motivation,
  • equal access to education for Roma children without segregation,
  • non-discriminatory treatment of Roma women in Slovak hospitals, including combating their segregation in maternity wards,
  • the effective application of anti-discrimination law in practice by the court.

We also draw the Advisory Committee’s attention to the growing phenomenon of discrimination against some disadvantaged groups in our society in access to digital technologies.

You can read the full report here.