Although the Czechoslovakian practice of
sterilizing undesirables was officially
abandoned in 1990, many Romai women claim
they have continued to be coercively
sterilized since the fall of communism in
1989. Victims have obtained little justice
from the government. The article argues that
the lack of justice for these victims is due
to barriers in the Czech and Slovak legal
systems regarding laws designed to protect
against coercive sterilization. The article
discusses how the most successful efforts to
obtain justice for the coercively sterilized