Research and Reports
last updated March 22, 2006
 
Legislation in the Member States of the Council of Europe in the Field of Violence Against Women, prepared in part by Jill Radford, United Kingdom, for the Council of Europe's Steering Committee for Equality Between Men and Women, March 2004 (Doc. EG 2004 2).
This report details national legislation dealing with violence against women in 38 of the 45 Council of Europe member states. In 1995, the Council requested member states to complete a questionnaire on relevant legislation, and subsequent research completed by the Council allowed for a survey of the varying legislation of member states. The report consists of two volumes, ending with a list of good practices and effective legislation prohibiting violence against women. Pages 107-119 of Volume II contain information on Slovakia.

2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Slovakia, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 28 February 2005.
Section 5 of the report contains a paragraph on the status of women in Slovakia, and a subsection on trafficking.

Human Rights in the OSCE Region: Europe, Central Asia and North America, Report 2004 (Events of 2004), International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 23 June 2004. (PDF, 10 pages).
This report discusses women’s and human rights.

2003 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: Slovakia, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 25 February 2004.
This report has a section on the status of women, as well as a separate section on trafficking in Slovakia.

Forced Sterilization and Other Assaults on Roma Reproductive Freedom, Body and Soul, Center for Reproductive Rights, January 2003. (PDF, 141 pages).
This report describes the findings of a three-month fact-finding mission by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Center for Civil and Human Rights. The report found that Romani women suffered from discrimination in health care, as well as widespread forced sterilization in Slovakia.

Integration of the Human Rights of Women and the Gender Perspective - Violence Against Women, Addendum 1, Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 27 Feb. 2003. (PDF, 435).
This report has information regarding sexual harassment, rape, prostitution, trafficking and domestic violence against women in Slovakia. Information on Slovakia can be found on page 382.

Epidemiological Facts Sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Czech Republic, UNAIDS, WHO and UNICEF, 2004. (PDF, 14 pages).
This report provides statistical and behavioral information on HIV/AIDS in Slovakia.

Outline for 2003 Human Rights Report on Trafficking of Persons, Especially Women and Children: Slovakia, The Protection Project, 2003. 
This report describes the situation and case examples of trafficking. The report also describes the international and domestic law on trafficking in Slovakia.

A Form of Slavery: Trafficking in Women in OSCE Member States, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, prepared for the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings, Vienna, 19 June 2000. (PDF, 86 pages).
This report is based on information gathered in the region through questionnaires and contains data on such issues as existing legislation, government policies and NGO initiatives, existing victim support services and research for 29 countries, including Slovakia.

National Report of the Slovak Republic on Population and Development, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, 2001.
This report describes general demographics, health, and economic status of the Slovak population. It also discusses the implementation of the Cairo conference.

Perspective on Women's Human Rights Country Reports, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 7 January 2000.
This report describes the legal framework in Slovakia on violence against women.

Overview of the Socio-Economic Position of Rural Women in Selected Central and Eastern European Countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, Food and Agriculture Organisation, 1996. 
This report examines the role of rural women on the farm and in the family, their participation in education, training, and services, their knowledge of home economics, their level of household technology, problems, priorities, social security and legal issues they face, and domestic research and development programs on rural women. Section 10.6 specifically addresses Slovakia.

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