Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 11/08/2011

Subject: The decision on the sterilisation of a 20-year old Roma woman in a public hospital without her informed consent

Parties: V.C. c. Slovacchia

Classification: Dignity - Art. 3 Informed consent - Art. 4 Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination