Documents

In August 2019 we submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that provides information about ongoing shortcoming in the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in relation to Roma ethnic minority in Slovakia.

In cooperation with the Human Rights Forum partner organization, we submitted a report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Rights (CESCR), in which we inform about violations of the right of many Roma in Slovakia to access drinking water.

In June 2019 we sent the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance information regarding barriers in access to justice for Roma minority in Slovakia.

In May 2019 we sent the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women information about reproductive rights violations against Roma women in Slovakia.

We submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which describes selected shortcomings in the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by the Slovak Government. In our report we particularly deal with the implementation of the Convention in respect to Roma minority in Slovakia.

We submitted the report to the UN Committee against Torture, in which we are informing about selected shortcomings in the implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Slovakia.  

Together with partner non-governmental organizations Center for Reproductive Rights, Citizen, Democracy and Accountability and Women`s Circles we submitted the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) a joint alternative report, which describes shortcomings in implementation of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Slovakia specifically in the area of the protection of women`s reproductive rights.

We submitted the written comments to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), which provide information about persisting shortcoming in the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil an Political Rights in relation to Roma ethnic minority in Slovakia.

Written comments describe a number of persisting shortcomings in the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in relation to Romani children in Slovakia.

The report describes concrete shortcomings in the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women particularly in relation to Romani women in Slovakia.