Full Coverage: Slovakia

16.11.2007 In eastern Slovakia, some of the poorest and most marginalized people in Europe are often denied their right to education and are subject to discrimination and segregation in schools, says Amnesty International.

26.07.2007 Primaeval beech forests in the Carpathian Mountains have been inscribed on the UN's World Heritage List, underlining the global importance of this rare forest habitat — the most extensive in Europe.

17.03.2004 Pakolaisneuvonta vaatii Ulkomaalaisvirastolle ja sisäasiainministeriölle lähettämässään kirjeessä yksilöllisen tutkinnan varmistamista Slovakian romaneille. Kirjeessä kritisoidaan turvapaikkahakemusten pikaista käsittelyä. Järjestö muistuttaa, että Slovakian romaneihin kohdistuneet ihmisoikeusloukkaukset, kuten naisten sterilisaatiot ilman heidän suostumustaan, ovat yleisesti tiedossa.

06.05.2003 For decades, Roma women have been sterilised by the Slovakian government without their consent or knowledge, reports Shravanti Reddy.

30.01.2002 Despite recent police operations against skinhead groups, neo-Nazism is a dangerous and growing problem in Slovakia, warn police and human rights activists.

08.05.2001 Hungary is trying to reassure its neighbours that plans to grant special rights to ethnic Hungarians in surrounding countries such as Romania, Slovakia and Yugoslavia are not meant as discrimination against the majority populations.

24.12.2000 Women from 13 countries around the world will be among the first to benefit from an international guarantee that ensures them the right to seek justice at the United Nations.

31.08.2000 Slovak police have arrested six men over a racially motivated attack on a west Slovakian Roma family last week, further fuelling outrage at the barrage of racist violence which faces the country's Romany community.

25.01.1999 IFJ calls for a normal service from Slovakia's leading commercial television station

18.09.1998 The world's largest journalists' group today called for a normal service from Slovakia's leading commercial television station, TV Markiza, which has been paralysed by a row over ownership.