Coercive Sterilisation of Roma Women

Roma women were subjected to sterilisation procedures without full information or informed consent under population control practices influenced by eugenic thinking. Often presented as voluntary in official records, these interventions caused lasting physical and psychological harm. The abuses reflected deep-rooted racism within healthcare and state institutions and remain a source of ongoing legal and ethical reckoning.

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