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  • Czech lawmakers passed a bill Friday granting one-off compensation to hundreds of women, mostly Roma, who were forcibly sterilised decades ago. The bill targets mostly women, but also men, who underwent involuntary sterilisation, in some cases after being threatened by the authorities with the removal of their children or benefits. The bill covering the period between July 1966 and March 2012 grants compensation worth 300,000 Czech crowns (12,000 euros, $14,000) to each such person. "The bill seeks to remove a mistake of the Communist system," said rightwing lawmaker Bohuslav Svoboda, a gynaecologist by profession. The forced sterilisations started under the Communist regime in former Czechoslovakia, which was toppled in 1989. Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Some sterilisations continued even after the end of Communist rule. The largely impoverished Roma minority is estimated to have a population of 200,000-300,000 in the Czech Republic, with official census data being much lower. Rights organisations have been bringing up the issue for years. The Czech ombudsman's report from 2005 said at least 50 Czech women, mainly Roma, had been illegally sterilised in the last 30 years. Their files did not contain all the necessary consent forms showing the patient had been properly informed about the procedure, the report said. In 2007, a court awarded compensation to a Roma woman who insisted she had never given her consent to an operation and believed the hospital had only fitted her with a coil contraceptive. She only discovered she had been sterilised when she went to her doctor to have it removed because she wanted to have another child. Another sterilised woman, Elena Gorolova, hailed the bill. "We are really happy the bill has been passed. It is important to prevent this from happening to other women," she told CNN Prima News channel on Friday. Authorities have taken time to respond to the charges. In 2009, the government apologised for the sterilisations. The bill, which might concern up to 400 people, has yet to be discussed by the senate. If passed by the chamber, it'll have to be signed into law by the president. frj/dt/yad
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  • Czechs set to compensate forcibly sterilised Roma women
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