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Discrimination against Roma remained prevalent. The European Court of Human Rights found in favour of two Roma victims of police ill-treatment. A bill restricting access to abortion was rejected by parliament.
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Slovakia
Discrimination
Slovak parliament should reject bill making legal gender recognition impossible
May 17, 2023
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Europe and Central Asia
Children
Responding to the Slovak parliament’s failure to adopt an amendment to the School Act which would take steps to address discrimination against Roma children, Rado Sloboda, Director of Amnesty International Slovakia, said: “The Slovak parliament missed a crucial chance today to adopt measures that...
May 9, 2023
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Slovakia
Discrimination
Following the brutal killing of two people outside an LGBTI bar in Bratislava on 12 October, numerous organizations are organizing a demonstration tomorrow to express solidarity with Slovakia’s LGBTI community. Amnesty International will be participating in the solidarity march, and is also...
October 26, 2022
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Europe and Central Asia
Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights
Ahead of tomorrow’s expected parliamentary vote on a bill that would severely restrict access to abortion in Slovakia, Rado Sloboda, Director of Amnesty Slovakia said: “Imposing unjustified and harmful hurdles to getting an abortion would endanger the health and even the lives of women and girls...
November 10, 2021
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Europe and Central Asia
Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights
Lawmakers in Slovakia must reject a draconian law that would impose new barriers to abortion and endanger the health and wellbeing of women and girls, said Amnesty International, ahead of the start of a parliamentary plenary session that will debate on a new abortion bill. If passed, the law would...
September 16, 2020
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Austria
Europe: Mass protests provide hope as rights and judicial independence eroded People’s rights are being violated by governments in Europe and Central Asia, who are cracking down on protests and seeking to erode the independence of the judiciary to avoid accountability, Amnesty International said...
April 16, 2020
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Europe and Central Asia
Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights
Following a vote today rejecting a bill that would have forced women seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound scan of the embryo or foetus, Amnesty’s Senior Campaigner on Women’s Rights, Monica Costa Riba, said: “Today’s vote is a victory for women and for reproductive rights. By rejecting this...
December 5, 2019
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Slovakia
Children
By Anna Blus, Central Europe Researcher It is lunch time in a small town in eastern Slovakia, and the sound of children’s laughter rings out from a school playground. This is a sleepy, unremarkable place, sitting under a pall of grey smoke from the nearby industrial plant whose tall chimneys...
March 2, 2017
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Slovakia
Discrimination
Romani children in Slovakia are being failed by a discriminatory primary school system which continues to segregate them and seriously hinder their education, condemning them to lives of poverty and exclusion, Amnesty International and the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) said in a new report...
March 1, 2017
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Austria
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Sweeping new laws are driving Europe into a deep and dangerous state of permanent securitization, Amnesty International said on the publication of a comprehensive human rights analysis of counter-terrorism measures across 14 EU member states. Dangerously disproportionate: The ever-expanding...
January 17, 2017
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Czech Republic
Discrimination
Photo: Melpomeni Maragkidou/Vice. The 4th primary, a school tucked away in a corner of Sofades, a small town near the city of Karditsa in central Greece, looks like an old, decrepit prison. The building is so dilapidated, no child should be spending any time there. With not enough classrooms and...
April 8, 2015
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Europe and Central Asia
Children
By Barbora Černušáková, Amnesty International researcher on Slovakia and Lenka Machlicová, Amnesty International Slovakia For the villages of north-eastern Slovakia’s Kežmarok district, nestled beneath the snow-capped High Tatra Mountains, winter can be icy cold. On a recent visit it wasn’t the...
March 13, 2015