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Expert opinion of the Slovak Equality Body on the assessment of the intention to create a Roma national school in the village of Rakúsy

Added: 22. November 2024

On 19 November 2024, at our request, the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights, as the national anti-discrimination body, issued an expert opinion in which it stated that the intention of the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic to create a pilot national Roma school in village Rakúsy, including through temporary special measures, would, if implemented, be contrary to the imperative of non-discrimination. The expert opinion is available in Slovak only.

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Expert opinion of the Slovak Equality Body in the case of separate education of Roma children at the church school in Kendice

Added: 22. November 2024

On 24 October 2024, at our initiative, the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights, as the national anti-discrimination body, issued an expert opinion in which it stated that the separate education of Roma children in purely Roma classrooms in a separate school building constitutes discrimination in the form of segregation. The expert opinion is available in Slovak only.

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Judgment of the Municipal Court Bratislava IV in the case of segregation of Roma children at the primary school Stará Ľubovňa – Podsadek

Added: 17. July 2024

The Municipal Court of Bratislava IV, by its judgment of 7 May 2024, did not oblige the defendant State, represented by the Ministry of Education and the town of Stará Ľubovňa to eliminate the segregation of Roma children at the primary school in the locality of Stará Ľubovňa – Podsadek. Our NGO has been conducting strategic court proceedings in this case since 2015. The segregation at this school has already been finally decided by the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic in December 2022. The Municipal Court has only ruled on the part of the lawsuit we are seeking to remedy the illegal situation at that school. The decision is not final and will appeal it.

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Judgment of the Municipal Court Bratislava IV in the case of segregation of Roma children at the primary school in Muránská Dlhej Lúka

Added: 1. July 2024

The Municipal Court of Bratislava IV, by its judgment of 21 May 2024, did not oblige the defendant State, represented by the Ministry of Education, to eliminate the segregation of Roma children at the primary school in the village of Muránska Dlhá Lúka. Our NGO has been conducting strategic court proceedings in this case since 2015. The segregation at this school has already been finally decided by the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic in July 2023. The Municipal Court has only ruled on the part of the lawsuit we are seeking to remedy the illegal situation at that school. The decision is not final and will be appealed.

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Judgment of the Regional Court in Prešov on the segregation of Roma children from Malý Slivník at the primary school in a village Terňa

Added: 3. June 2024

The Regional Court in Prešov, in its judgment of 22 April 2024, confirmed that the defendant state institutions had committed discrimination – both by adopting decisions on the designation of the school district, which maintained the existing segregation of Roma children at the school in Terni, and by failing to take effective measures to prevent and eliminate their segregation. The Regional Court upheld the defendants’ obligation to develop within six months of the judgment, a plan of measures leading to the effective elimination and prevention of segregation and their obligation to implement that plan within two years. The decision is final and the defendants cannot appeal against it.

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