Greece
Blocked access to reproductive healthcare
In Greece, Romani women experience discrimination and mistreatment in healthcare settings. This leads many Romani women to give birth at home instead of in hospitals. If a baby is born outside a hospital and there is no birth notification from a doctor or midwife, a late birth registration is not allowed. The only way to then get birth documentation is to petition the court to certify that the child was born in Greece to parents of unknown citizenship, therefore making the child a Greek citizen. While there was an order made for free legal-aid to be provided to low-income undocumented women, the Greek National Commission for Human Rights stated in 2020 that this doesn’t effectively address the problem.
