Amnesty International criticizes Slovakia for Roma, in the world pointed out an increase

London/BRATISLAVA. In its annual report for 2024, the international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) points out that thousands of people in Slovakia do not have adequate access to affordable housing.

It criticizes the government for the amendments to laws that, according to AI, disproportionately limited the rights to peaceful collection and freedom of expression.

A crisis in the area of ​​public rental housing

The organization also notes the confidentiality of information about the supply of weapons to Israel, discrimination against the Roma or the law unprotected rights of LGBTI persons.

AI argues that non -recognition of housing as human law has caused a crisis in Slovakia in the area of ​​public rental housing. It affected marginalized groups and other households struggling with excessive housing costs.

The lack of municipal flats has led to the fact that thousands of households did not have adequate access to the possibilities of public rental housing. The approach was even more limited by the strict criteria for the allocation of the municipal apartment. According to AI, the Roma were exposed to systemic discrimination in the allocation of municipal housing.

Legislation on the right of peaceful collection adopted last June according to AI violated the Constitution and the International Slovak Rights’ Pleasures. AI also pointed out a law on NGOs, which she believes were issued by criticism and attacks by government officials.

It claims that the new public broadcast law has increased political influence on the public media.

AI again pointed out the action of the European Commission against the Slovak Republic for the alleged segregation of Roma children and their frequent placement in special schools.

Excessive use of force by police

In connection with the Roma AI, it also stated that the Slovak Republic did not introduce effective measures for the consistent implementation of judgments against the excessive use of force by the police against the Roma. It was also unable to improve the investigation of police violence against the Roma, including possible racial motifs and did not strengthen the independence of the investigation authority.

According to AI, transroding persons in Slovakia were issued to obstructions in the approach to the legal recognition of the gender and the healthcare related to the change of gender. LGBTI faced persistent discrimination and hostile attitude by the state and society.

There was no progress in the award of rights to registered partnerships or parenting pairs of the same sex. The organization also criticizes « homophobic and transfobic views » of some deputies.

AI also reproaches Slovakia that there is still no legal definition of rape based on the absence of consent, nor an effective mechanism for compensation for women who were subjected to forced sterilization between 1966 and 2004. It also recalled the unsuccessful attempt of parliament to shorten the limitation period for the crimes of sexual violence from 20 to ten years.

In Chapter on the Right to the Healthy Environment AI, it writes that despite the 2023 commitment to switch from fossil fuels to green energy sources, the government continued investments in the terminal for liquefied gas in Bratislava.

AI also claims that the integrated national energy and climate plan lacks a clear timeframe to reduce the use of fossil fuels and the plan lags significantly behind the EU aim to 2030 in the use of renewable energy sources.

On a global scale of Amnesty in her report, she pointed out an increase in « authoritarian practices and hard suppression of disagreement ».

Criticism of Trump’s administration

AI criticizes administration US President Donald Trumpwhich, according to her, « by its campaign against human rights accelerates the already existing harmful trends, breaks down the international mechanisms of human rights protection and threatens billions of people around the world ». Trump during the first 100 days in the post of President, according to AI, has multiplied the damage caused by other world leaders during 2024.

« At this historical moment, when authoritarian laws and practices multiply around the world in the interests of a narrow group of people, governments and civil society have urgently cooperate to bring humanity back to a safer journey, » said Agnes Callamard, Secretary General.

She added that the events of the past year, in particular war in the Gaza Stripthey revealed « how hell the world can happen to many people when the most powerful states reject international law and ignore multilateral institutions ».

According to AI, the suspension of foreign aid by AI influenced health services for children of Syria and stopped programs to help save people’s lives in Yemen.

Attacks on civilian infrastructure

AI has accused in the report Israelthat after an attack Hamas On its territory of October 7, 2023, he commits live « genocide in the Gaza » Genocide « by violently displacing the majority of the population and intentionally creating a humanitarian disaster.

In the pre -orden, Izzrael uses the « apartheid system », which is increasingly violent, characterized by « a sharp increase in illegal killing and the state -supported attacks of Israeli settlers at Palestinian civilians ».

Amnesty also pointed out that Mask in war on Ukraine It killed more civilians in 2024 than in the previous year, continuing to attack civilian infrastructure and tortured the detainees.

According to the organization on a large scale, Sudanese forces of rapid support (RSF) committed sexual violence against women and girls, which most likely represents war crimes and crimes against humanity. AI also pointed out that the number of internally displaced people in Sudan has increased to 11 million, more than in any other country in the world.