Extreme-Right politics in Slovakia
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Contentious law to ban discrimination finally passed
1 July saw the introduction of a law to outlaw discrimination based on gender, race, religion, health, ethnicity and sexual orientation.
1 December 2004 (360 words)
Slovak deputy accused of defamation
Representatives of Roma organisations in Slovakia have filed a complaint against parliamentary deputy Jozef Banas who jokingly suggested to a NATO parliamentary assembly lunch in Bratislava that the shortage of troops in Afghanistan could be solved by deploying divisions of Slovak Roma.
1 December 2004 (94 words)
Loan sharks who prey on Roma to be punished
The Deputy PM for Minorities has promised to punish loan sharks following a special report which showed that Roma were being specifically targeted.
1 December 2004 (115 words)
Asylum centres opposed by locals
The local branch of the UNHCR has offered to help Slovakia's asylum and migration policies after several towns and villages in Eastern Slovakia refused to let the Labour Ministry establish orphanages for refugee children.
18 November 2004 (191 words)
International bodies want attention paid to Roma
According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) the situation of Slovak Roma is taking on the dimension of 'a humanitarian catastrophe'.
30 September 2004 (80 words)
Roma studies introduced
The Slovak-English bilingual high school in Bratislava, is now offering Roma studies as part of the curriculum.
9 September 2004 (64 words)
European Parliament: gains for Slovak National Party
The Slovak National Party, which campaigns to rehabilitate the wartime fascist leader Josef Tiso, fielded eleven candidates in the June European parliamentary elections.
14 June 2004 (56 words)
Jewish leaders worried about conservative church influence
Following the cancellation of the TV premiere of a documentary , 'Love they Neighbour', about the pogrom in Topolcany against Jews in September 1945, after the end of the war, the Central Federation of Jewish Religious Congregations has criticised the management of the public Slovak Television.
19 May 2004 (99 words)
Bratislava: arson at anti-racist office
The offices of People Against Racism in Bratislava were attacked and deliberately set on fire on the night of 7 May.
9 May 2004 (119 words)
Roma communities face starvation following benefits cuts
In the run-up to joining the EU, Slovakia has halved unemployment benefit and abolished children's allowance - as a way, according to the social minister, of ending 'a culture of dependence among Roma'.
27 April 2004 (668 words)
Pact with Vatican empowers the church
Slovakia is planning to seal a pact with the Vatican which will vastly increase the influence of Roman Catholicism in the country's schools, hospitals, courts and security structures.
21 March 2004 (90 words)
Roma in self-defence case sentenced to 12 years
A 20-year-old Roma, Mario Bango, who went to the aid of his brother who was being beaten up by a well-known skinhead in March 2001, was sentenced in November 2003 to twelve years in prison.
10 March 2004 (85 words)
Roma attacked in western Slovakia
The European Roma Rights Center has written to the Slovak prime minister about alarming events in the village of Zahorska Ves, where Roma have been subjected to a number of serious racist attacks, property has been destroyed and Roma expulsion threatened by the local mayor.
16 February 2004 (256 words)
Anti-discrimination bill passed
The Slovak cabinet passed an anti-discrimination bill without any support from the Christian Democrat Movement, which strongly opposes provisions on sexual orientation.
16 February 2004 (56 words)
Racially-motivated crime on the increase
According to the news wire SITA, racially-motivated crimes have increased.
2 February 2004 (57 words)
ECRI reports on racism
The Council of Europe's expert body on combating racism, the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), has reported on racism in Slovakia.
27 January 2004 (91 words)
First-ever report on extremism
For the first time, the interior ministry has published a report detailing the extent of extremism in Slovakia.
1 August 2002 (162 words)
Arrests after neo-Nazi concert
In September 2001, some 89 skinheads were detained and questioned after police in Papradno, Povazska Bystrica district stopped a neo-Nazi concert attended by 500 people from Europe and the US.
1 August 2002 (57 words)
Eastern Slovakia: gravestones desecrated
More than 130 gravestones were damaged or destroyed in Kosice, in eastern Slovakia, in attacks which coincided with Hitler's birthday.
1 August 2002 (29 words)
Harassment of Roma Rights activists claimed
The ERRC has written to the prime minister calling for protection of two Roma Rights activists who have been targeted by the extreme-Right for harassment.
1 August 2002 (104 words)
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