CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Krejcova, Katerina |
|---|---|
| Title | Escaping a Common Past: Why the Czech and Slovak Republic fail to protect vulnerable Roma Groups |
| Summary | In 1978, the authors of the Charter 77 document On the Situation of Gypsies-Roma in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic were able to identify two significant cases of violence perpetrated by state power in communist Czechoslovakia on the most vulnerable members of the Roma minority. The forced sterilizations of Romani women and the segregation of Romani children are examples of the human rights failure of the two successor independent democracies, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, long after the 1989 Velvet Revolution and the division of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1992. In the coming decades, both young democracies would lose the case brought against them under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rather arbitrarily and inconsistently takes into account the essential historical context of the continuity of legal and policy repression against the Roma. The thesis raises a question as to the difference between a repeating pattern and an isolated excess when the history of the Roma is in fact a history of discrimination. |
| Supervisor | Polgári Eszter |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/krejcova_katerina.pdf |
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