The lower house of the Czech Parliament has adopted the law for compensation of Roma women who were sterilized without their consent, The Group for protection of human rights believe that over a hundred Roma women were sterilized without even knowing and they expect that over 400 women will have the right to seek a one-time compensation in the amount of 14.350 dollars. According to the report of the National Ombudsman from 2005, the sterilization was made during the time of communism, it served as a semi-official tool to limit the Roma population in today’s Czech Republic, however this practice continued to happen even after the fall of communism in 1989. The women who will have the right to compensation will be the women which were illegally sterilized between the periods of 1966 up until 2021.
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