Chekhia compensates women mostly Roma who were legally sterilized

Women, most of whom were of the Roma community, will receive 12 thousand euros from the government in compensation.

Gendolyn Albert, a human rights activist who was one of those who demanded such a change, said: “This means that the evil done to those women who were sterilised now will be known and corrected. ”

Social workers had used incentivities or had strongly threatened women to submit to the procedure in question from 1966 to 2012, reports Guardian.

No one knows how many women have been affected, but activists believe there have been hundreds and hundreds of victims.

The program in question ended with the collapse of the Communist regime in 1989, but pregnant women continued to be misinformed by being forced to sign reconciliation agreements for the Caesaric births.

In many cases they were not even told that they were sterilized.

For Elena Gorolova, a social worker from Ostrava who was sterilized when she was 21 years old, this move is a historic victory.

Barbora Cernuskova, from Amnesty International, has stated that compensation is a key step forward in ensuring the right to reap the damages suffered by victims.

But she warned that compensation should not end the discussion of racism against the Roma community in Czechia. /Periscope