Sterilisation – rroma.org https://rroma.org Thu, 14 May 2026 15:39:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Sterilisation – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Redress in Czechia https://rroma.org/redress-in-czechia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=redress-in-czechia Thu, 14 May 2026 15:39:30 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32574 with the case of the Lety concentration camp.

Worth reading.

]]> Sterilisations https://rroma.org/sterilisations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sterilisations Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:32:20 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29807 Hundreds of Roma women have been sterilized in Slovakia without their knowledge or consent. For many of them, it was a personal tragedy. One of them is Veronika Duždová. The 46-year-old now lives in Jarovnice, the largest settlement with a compact Roma population in Slovakia. “I am close to several women who were sterilized. We often meet to talk about it and our work,” she tells DV.

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.

]]> Auschwitz and the Pill https://rroma.org/auschwitz-and-the-pill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=auschwitz-and-the-pill Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:23:45 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29483 A chilling report on a German researcher in Auschwitz.

]]> Forced Sterilisations https://rroma.org/forced-sterilisations-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=forced-sterilisations-2 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:02:53 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29132 A long article about the forced sterilisation of Romnja in Czechoslovakia (and beyond), and the long plight to get compensated.

]]> Czechia and Sterilisations https://rroma.org/czechia-and-sterilisations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-and-sterilisations Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:09:16 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28842 The Czech President Petr Pavel has signed a law extending the deadline for submitting compensation claims for forced sterilisations to January 2027.

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.

]]> Amnesty on Czechia https://rroma.org/28170-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=28170-2 Fri, 02 May 2025 05:42:33 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28170 The annual Amnesty International report on Czechia has just been published… It takes note of the incomplete compensation of the victims of forced sterilization among other things.

]]> Charter 77 Award https://rroma.org/charter-77-award/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=charter-77-award Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:31:58 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27877 The František Kriegl Award of the Czech Charter 77 Foundation for Civic Courage was awarded this year to Romani activist and social worker Elena Gorolová. The jury honoured her for her personal and professional contribution to the fight for compensation for victims of illegal and secret sterilizations. It particularly highlighted her long-term efforts and the courage with which she raised the topic, as well as her subsequent fight for compensation for victims of illegal actions by state healthcare facilities.

]]> Czechoslovakia: Sterilisations https://rroma.org/czechoslovakia-sterilisations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechoslovakia-sterilisations Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:31:01 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27874 It is estimated that thousands of women of Roma origin were sterilized in Czechoslovakia since the early 1970s. They had to wait decades for compensation.

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.

]]> Czechia: Forced Sterilisations https://rroma.org/czechia-forced-sterilisations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-forced-sterilisations Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:45:00 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27145 Sixty-five-year-old Jarmila Adiová from Jirkov near Chomutov, who has applied for compensation for forced sterilisations tells about what happened to her. She said “First, social workers came to me and constantly checked how I was taking care of our five sons. They went to school and everything was fine. I was pregnant at the time and expecting a girl. The social workers threatened me that if I didn’t have an abortion, they would take my children away.”

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.

]]> Czech Forced Sterilisation https://rroma.org/czech-forced-sterilisation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czech-forced-sterilisation Sun, 09 Feb 2025 08:50:42 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27072 Two articles in the French press about the forced sterilisations of Romnja in the Czech Republic.

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