Citation

Cahn C. Health Hum. Rights 2017; 19(2): 9-22.

Affiliation

Human rights officer at the Regional Office for Europe of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Harvard School of Public Health, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

29302159

Abstract

Tens of thousands of women were coercively sterilized in Czechoslovakia and its successor states. Romani women were particularly targeted for these measures. These practices stopped only in 2004, as a result of international pressure. Although some measures have been taken to ensure that these practices are not repeated, to date neither the Czech Republic nor Slovakia have completed the work of providing effective remedy to victims, as is their right. This article focusses on efforts in the Czech Republic. It concludes that, inter alia, an administrative mechanism is needed to provide financial compensation to victims, since the road to remedy via courts is effectively blocked.

Language: en