Current Affairs New proposals to compensate Roma women sterilized involuntarily
Reports of the sterilization of Romany women stretch back to the 1970s. Experts suspect that there could be up to 2000 women in the Czech Republic, who have been sterilized against their will. Since 1991 at least 85 women and one man have lodged complaints with the Czech ombudsman, claiming to have been sterilized involuntarily. The Vybor pro lidska prava a biomedecinu (the Commission for biomedicine and human rights), a government advisory committee, this week suggested that the state should create a fund to compensate these women. The suggested pay-out is around CZK 200,000, or USD 10,000, per victim. But the minister responsible has rejected this idea, while Romany rights groups have deemed the measures insufficient. Kumar Vishvanathan is a Romany rights worker in Ostrava:
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