ethnic violence

Case No. AP 126/08, on the appeal of Gojko Janković, Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, (2011)

The applicant was sterilized at age 17 during the birth of her second child. She claimed that she was coerced into signing the authorizations for the sterilization, segregated in the hospital based on her Roma ethnicity, and that the decision to sterilize her was discriminatory. The District Court dismissed the applicant’s civil action against the hospital on the basis that the sterilization was required to save her life and, therefore, did not need consent.

Case No. X-KRŽ-07/442, Second Instance Judgment of Predrag Kujundžić, Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, War Crimes Division (2010)