BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A court in Slovakia ruled three Gypsy women had their human rights violated when prosecutors shelved complaints about their illegal sterilization. The ...

Motherhood came at a tender age for Ingrid Ginova, who had her first child at 15 and her second a year later. But her tragedy, she says, is that she'll never give birth again. Ginova, a Gypsy, ...

THE European Union excluded Slovakia from the first wave of would-be members because it was not “democratic” enough. One worry was about minority rights. So no surprise, perhaps, that one of the first ...

Martin Sulik uses the basic framework of Hamlet to look at tensions between the Roma community and white Eastern Europeans in his home country.... Dad just died violently. Mom married the man who ...

ONE OF the biggest Roma festivals, Gypsy Fest – World Roma Festival, has come to draw crowds in the streets of Slovak capital. The programme of its eighth year included various types of events, meant ...

BERLIN — A high rate of primary congenital glaucoma affects the Gypsy population of Slovakia, according to a large study. "The mean incidence is one per 700, compared to one per 15,000 in the rest of ...

PRAGUE — Martin Sulik’s “Gypsy” has been submitted for Oscar foreign-lingo consideration by the Slovak Film and Television Academy. The coming-of-age tale about a 14-year-old Roma youth has won over ...

A proposal by the dean of a major medical school in Slovakia to reserve three places for Gypsy students has set off a heated controversy. Pavol Traubner, dean of the medical school of Comenius ...