Landmark ruling: the Court of Appeals upholds the responsibility of state institutions for the segregation of Roma children at a primary school in a village Terňa. State must now desegregate
State institutions, including the Slovak Ministry of Education, are responsible for segregation of Roma children at the primary school in Terňa and must eliminate it. In its judgment, a written copy of which has been delivered to us as plaintiffs these days, the Regional Court in Prešov has made a final decision on this matter. It thus confirmed the judgment of the first instance District Court in Prešov of 6 November 2023. It is the first ever final judgment by which Slovak courts have imposed an obligation on state institutions to draw up a plan for the elimination of segregation in education and then to implement it.