Coercive and Cruel: Sterilisation and its Consequences for Romani Women in the Czech Republic (1966-2016)

14 February 2017
by Catherine MALLET

This ERRC report examines one of the most serious human rights violations against women – the practice of coercive involuntary sterilisation that was aimed at and programmatically performed on Romani women and women with disabilities against their will or without free and informed consent starting from the 1970s until the 1990s in the Czech Republic. Along with a review of the institutional, legal and policy context within which these sterilisations took place, the main focus of the report is on the personal experiences of sterilised Romani women.

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is a Roma-led international public interest law organisation working to combat anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma.

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