Caring for Thirst: Challenges to Access to Water in Slovakia through a Legal Lens
This article provides an assessment of segregated Romani communities’ access to water in Slovakia. It combines philosophical and human rights perspectives and focuses on obstacles communities encounter when pursuing access to safe drinking water through the context of law, whether national legislat...
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This article provides an assessment of segregated Romani communities’ access to water in Slovakia. It combines philosophical and human rights perspectives and focuses on obstacles communities encounter when pursuing access to safe drinking water through
the context of law, whether national legislation, EU legislation, or international human rights. This article aims to establish the case
of racial discrimination against Roma in Slovakia through the lens of the environmental justice and especially water precarity. This
contribution also explores international standards concerning the right to access water from the perspective of vulnerability, arguing
that specific populations living in precarious situations should have an unconditional right to water.
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| spelling | doaj-art-31ab9b62c9f74682bd4e91bf9c586c862025-08-20T03:19:10ZengRomani Studies Program at Central European UniversityCritical Romani Studies2560-30192630-855X2025-04-017110.29098/crs.v7i1.72Caring for Thirst: Challenges to Access to Water in Slovakia through a Legal LensAdam Máčaj0Maroš Matiaško1Assistant professor (on leave), Comenius University, Faculty of Law, Bratislava, SlovakiaAssistant professor, Palacky University, Faculty of Law, Olomouc, Czechia; Postdoctoral researcher, Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Prague, Czechia This article provides an assessment of segregated Romani communities’ access to water in Slovakia. It combines philosophical and human rights perspectives and focuses on obstacles communities encounter when pursuing access to safe drinking water through the context of law, whether national legislation, EU legislation, or international human rights. This article aims to establish the case of racial discrimination against Roma in Slovakia through the lens of the environmental justice and especially water precarity. This contribution also explores international standards concerning the right to access water from the perspective of vulnerability, arguing that specific populations living in precarious situations should have an unconditional right to water. https://crs.ceu.edu/index.php/crs/article/view/72environmental justicelegal remediesright to waterRomaSlovakia |
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| title | Caring for Thirst: Challenges to Access to Water in Slovakia through a Legal Lens |
| title_full | Caring for Thirst: Challenges to Access to Water in Slovakia through a Legal Lens |
| title_fullStr | Caring for Thirst: Challenges to Access to Water in Slovakia through a Legal Lens |
| title_full_unstemmed | Caring for Thirst: Challenges to Access to Water in Slovakia through a Legal Lens |
| title_short | Caring for Thirst: Challenges to Access to Water in Slovakia through a Legal Lens |
| title_sort | caring for thirst challenges to access to water in slovakia through a legal lens |
| topic | environmental justice legal remedies right to water Roma Slovakia |
| url | https://crs.ceu.edu/index.php/crs/article/view/72 |
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