Czech government considers compensating women for forced sterilization

The World

For decades, Roma women in the Czech Republic were sterilized against their will. And for years the Czech government did little to acknowledge it. That might be about to change. A new bill aimed at compensating the women is going through parliament in Prague. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports. 

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