On Monday 15 July, returning from a visit to Slovakia from 8 to 12 July, Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, condemned “the discrimination affecting all areas of Roma people’s lives” in the country.
It mentions “Roma women placed in separate maternity wards”, “Roma children segregated in education”, “many Roma deprived of access to adequate housing” and “being turned away from job interviews”.
The Commissioner criticises the...