Nice to talk about this, but Deutsche Welle could have skipped the comment “In Roma culture, large families are an expression of wealth and happiness”. This is simply not true, and sgtereotypical.

• Завинаги бездетни: Как стерилизираха ромски жени в Словакия. In: Deutsche Welle. 13.09.2025. https://www.dw.com/bg/zavinagi-bezdetni-kak-steriliziraha-romski-zeni-v-slovakia/a-73933586

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• What does birth control pill have to do with Auschwitz? In: Deutsche Welle. 14.08.2025. https://www.dw.com/en/what-does-birth-control-pill-have-to-do-with-auschwitz/a-73641627

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• ‘TOO YOUNG, TOO POOR, TOO ROMANI’: THE WOMEN STERILISED WITHOUT CONSENT. In: Balkan Insight. 23.07.2025. https://balkaninsight.com/2025/07/23/too-young-too-poor-too-romani-the-women-sterilised-without-consent/

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Many Romnja who had been forced-sterilised had tried to get their claims registered, but the process was so slow that they would have seen their claims dismissed. Let’s hope this time it will work.

• Czech President signs law extending opportunity to apply for compensation for forced sterilizations until 2 January 2027. In: Romea. 27.06.2025. https://romea.cz/en/czech-republic/czech-president-signs-law-extending-opportunity-to-apply-for-compensation-for-forced-sterilizations-until-2-january-2027#google_vignette

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• Amnesty International on the Czech Republic: SPD party spreads racism, Romani women still waiting to be compensated for their forced sterilizations, arms exports to human rights violators continue. In: Romea. 29.04.2025. https://romea.cz/en/czech-republic/amnesty-international-on-the-czech-republic-spd-party-spreads-racism-romani-women-still-waiting-to-be-compensated-for-their-forced-sterilizations-arms-exports-to-human-rights-violators-continue#google_vignette

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• „Řekli mi: Podepište to, nebo zemřete.“ Gorolová dostala za boj proti nedobrovolným sterilizacím Cenu Františka Kriegla. In: Denik. N. 10.04.2025. https://denikn.cz/minuta/1704281/
• Nadace Charty 77 ocenila Gorolovou, bojovnici za odškodnění žen za sterilizaci. In: O 24. 10.04.2025. https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/domaci/nadace-charty-77-ocenila-gorolovou-bojovnici-za-odskodneni-zen-za-sterilizaci-359957

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In the Czechoslovak environment, forced sterilizations often took place in delivery rooms, at the moments of greatest vulnerability of women, during cesarean section births. Women in pain and under pressure from medical personnel were unable to give truly informed consent. The decree on sterilizations was repealed in 1993, but unfortunately isolated and illegal cases continued to occur. The last verified case of involuntary sterilization in the Czech Republic dates back only eleven years, to 2007. As Kateřina Čapková from the Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic emphasizes: “Forced sterilizations as a scientific topic seem to me to be important to study mainly in international contexts as a phenomenon that appears in states with different, and one could even say contradictory, ideologies.” The Prague Forum for Roma History therefore plans to support deeper research into this area that has so far been insufficiently researched.

• Tisíce romských žen byly nedobrovolně sterilizovány. Stát je nyní odškodní. In: Medium.cz. 11.04.2025. https://medium.seznam.cz/clanek/michal-strych-tisice-romskych-zen-byly-nedobrovolne-sterilizovany-stat-je-nyni-odskodni-137816

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The office in charge of granting compensation is working so slowly that the deadline for applciations will be missed by many if a new law proposal to extend it by two years is not voted soon.

• Sestra mi řekla, že chci rodit jak kočka. Romská žena prošla nucenou sterilizací. In: Dennik. 14.02.2025. https://www.denik.cz/zdravotnictvi/romky-nucena-sterilizace-odskodneni-lhuta.html

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• Mutilées puis oubliées, le long chemin des femmes stérilisées de République Tchèque. In: Geo. 03.02.2025. https://www.geo.fr/geopolitique/mutilees-puis-oubliees-le-long-chemin-des-femmes-sterilisees-de-republiques-tcheque-224477
• En République tchèque, la réparation difficile des stérilisations illegals. In: AFP / Yahhoo. 03.02.2025.https://fr.news.yahoo.com/république-tchèque-réparation-difficile-stérilisations-081448511.html

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Bad.

• MVO: Násilná sterilizácia rómskych žien trvá, zistili sme 110 prípadov. In: SME. 29.01.2025. https://domov.sme.sk/c/796479/mvo-nasilna-sterilizacia-romskych-zien-trva-zistili-sme-110-pripadov.html

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