In a letter addressed to the Slovak Parliament and published on 12 June, Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, welcomes the forthcoming second reading of a proposed law aimed at establishing a financial compensation mechanism for people who have been illegally sterilised.
This is a “historic opportunity to finally address this long-standing injustice”, she writes, adding a number of observations aimed at improving the text.
These concern the amount of...