The Czech government has expressed regret over the illegal sterilisation of Roma women. Measures were being introduced to stop the practice being repeated, said Human Rights Minister Michael Kocab. Coercive sterilisation was allegedly used to curb the traditionally high fertility rate among the Roma. The practice officially ended with the collapse of Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1990, but rights groups say the last recorded case was as recent as 2003.
The Czech government has expressed regret over the illegal sterilisation of Roma women.
Measures were being introduced to stop the practice being repeated, said Human Rights Minister Michael Kocab.
Coercive sterilisation was allegedly used to curb the traditionally high fertility rate among the Roma.
The practice officially ended with the collapse of Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1990, but rights groups say the last recorded case was as recent as 2003.
