On 17 July 2018, an ethnic Ingush, Aslan Yandiev was extradited from Slovakia to Russian Federation. Amnesty International, the Human Rights League and International Partnership for Human Rights consider that the extradition violated Slovakia’s obligations not to put persons within its jurisdiction...

The submission outlines concerns that Amnesty International has with respect to Slovakia’s compliance with the Convention based on the organization’s most recent research. In particular, the submission highlights concerns with respect to the persistent and systemic discrimination and racial...

The joint report by Amnesty International and the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) documents that Romani children are systemically denied their rights to education and non-discrimination in primary education in Slovakia. They are segregated in Roma-only mainstream schools or classes, or special...

Hundreds of people were killed and wounded in a spate of violent attacks in European Union (EU) states between January 2015 and December 2016. They were shot by armed men, blown up in suicide bomb attacks and deliberately run over as they walked in the street. These callous crimes did not just...

Hundreds of people were killed and wounded in violent attacks in the European Union in 2015 and 2016. The need to protect people from such wanton violence is obvious and urgent. This report gives a bird’s eye view of the national security landscape and shows just how widespread and deep the...

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), Amnesty International and the Open Society Foundation Bratislava (OSF) call on the Slovak government to refute the use of the “incest-argument” to justify segregated education for Romani children in Slovakia.

Amnesty International calls on the Minister of Interior to urgently carry out a thorough investigation into the police raid targeting Romani residents in the village of Vrbnica in eastern Slovakia, carried out on 2 April. The organization learned that during the action the state police arbitrarily...

Amnesty International deplores the failure of Slovakia’s criminal justice system to ensure justice for the six Romani boys subjected to a horrific attack at a police station in 2009.

This document provides a summary of the external evaluation of Amnesty International’s work on tackling discrimination against Roma.

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