Report: Czechs, others sterilize Gypsies
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Human rights activists and a new draft UN report and say a Soviet-era campaign to sterilize Romany women continues.
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An art prank  by a Czech collective has highlighted an old Czech tradition of tomfoolery that is a particular matter of national cultural pride.
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Patients say they are treated as contaminated sinners; some are ordered to use separate toilets or to wash outside. Others are banished.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 3 (IPS) - The leaders of eight countries in eastern and  central Europe launched a 10-year plan Wednesday to tackle severe  social problems encountered by Roma, communities.
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The Commission for Racial Equality launches a review of how local authorities treat gypsies and travelling communities.
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PRAGUE- The Czechs are averagely satisfied and happy within Europe, occupying the 18th position in an extensive study by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, carried by ...
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SOFIA (bnn)- Five Bulgarian nurses, whom Libya has sentenced to death for allegedly causing an AIDS outbreak at a childrenâs hospital, will likely sue the Arab state for illegally arresting and torturing them, an official said Monday.
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Tensions rise between Slovakia and Hungary after attacks on members of Slovakia's Hungarian minority.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (IPS) - European Union officials were this week branded  "slow" and "lazy" in addressing discrimination  faced by the Roma community, the continent's largest  transnational minority.
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A woman who was raped and beaten near a Gypsy camp allegedly by a Romanian died Thursday night, state radio reported. The latest attack blamed on a foreigner has prompted the government to give authorities the power to expel EU immigrants deemed dangerous.
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SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan  - A Kazakh court jailed more than a dozen health workers on Wednesday for infecting 78 babies with HIV/AIDS but provoked parents' outrage for sparing senior officials.
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A European Union medical delegation is visiting Libya to assess the plight of some 400 children infected with HIV. In May, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death for intentionally infecting them.
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For the Record: 17 November 2004, Wednesday. Bulgarians have been placed sixth in a survey of sexual activity among people from 41 countries globally.
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Elka Strojan and her  30-strong Roma Gypsy family, forced to swap a house for three  rooms in a former army barracks, highlight the precarious  existence in the Balkans of Europe's largest minority.
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A recent exhibition of contemporary Romany art in Budapest was the latest nod to Europeâs most despised, and Hungary's largest, minority.
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PRAGUE, Dec 29 (IPS) - Ideological issues, corruption and populism pervade  the political culture of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia  and Poland at a time when both economic reform and an improvement  in living standards are being promised to bridge the gap with the  West.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on Czech attitudes to Brussels' red tape, and the ancient practice of rhinokopia.