Current Affairs UN committee looks into enforced sterilization of Romany women

21-08-2006 15:11 | Daniela Lazarová

A United Nations committee on the elimination of discrimination against women is looking into claims of enforced sterilization of Romany women in a number of post communist states, the Czech Republic included. The practice is said to have started in the communist days as a means of "regulating" the Romany population, but human rights activists fear that the practice did not end with the fall of communism.

Elena Gorolova, photo: www.romea.cz Elena Gorolova, photo: www.romea.cz   Back

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