INGA Magistad, the Norwegian Ambassador to Slovakia, offers a long list of projects that have come to fruition thanks to the EEA/Norway Grants, including that of a community centre in Moldava nad Bodvou run by a local Roma woman who tutors children from the Roma settlement, as well as reconstructed cultural heritage monuments, a swimming pool for the disabled and shelters for abused women. Her homeland has so far allocated more than €150 million to support projects for social and economic development. See more
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Anti-discrimination news from Slovakia
- Slovakia - Discrimination of Roma children in education March 14, 2025The first instance court in its new decision dismissed the case of discrimination of Romani child in access to education during the Covid-19 pandemic in line with legal opinion of the Appeal court
- Slovakia - Discrimination of Roma children in education January 15, 2025The appeal court ruled on discrimination of Romani child in access to education during the Covid-19 pandemic annulling the first instance court decision.
- Slovakia - Country report gender equality 2024 October 11, 2024
- Slovakia - First instance court decision on Ministry of Education duty to desegregate Roma children August 30, 2024The first instance courts did not oblige the Ministry of Education to desegregate Roma children at primary school in a town Stará Ľubovňa
- Slovakia - Discrimination of Roma minority August 2, 2024The first instance court ruled that unjustified use of force by the police against Roma residents from the village Vrbnica amounts to their discrimination based on ethnicity
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