[2] The Romani people in Slovakia originate from Northern India,[3][4][5][6] from the northwestern Indian regions of Rajasthan and Punjab.

The conference ended with a recommendation to the Government of India to recognize the Roma community spread across 30 countries as a part of the Indian diaspora.

[13] The first record of sightings of small groups of Romani within the area of present-day Slovakia are from 1322 AD, when the region was part of the Kingdom of Hungary.

There is a notable shortage of special education teachers, school psychologists, speech therapists, social pedagogues, and pedagogical assistants.

According to a 2012 United Nations Development Programme survey, around 43 per cent of Roma in mainstream schools attended ethnically segregated classes.

[19] In 2014 the European Commission's initiated infringement proceedings against the Slovak government for violating EU anti-discrimination laws in its treatment of Roma children in schools.

[20] In 2019 the European Commission issued a reasoned opinion highlighting the country's failure to comply with EU anti-discrimination laws in its treatment of Roma children in education.

Despite Slovakia's legislative reforms and adoption of inclusion strategies and action plans, the Commission found these efforts insufficient after careful assessment and monitoring.

In their report on the topic, The Center for Reproductive Rights has outlined a series of actions that they believe the Slovak government should take to address issues related to forced sterilization.

They propose the establishment of a government body dedicated to investigating individual complaints, which would involve reviewing medical records and conducting examinations in cases where women suspect they were sterilized without their knowledge.

They suggest creating a body to analyze discrimination issues, study possible solutions, and provide concrete assistance to victims.

in a paper published by a Non-governmental organization stating that it was "aimed at proving an earlier assumed hypothesis, highly popular in the media.

According to monitoring and reports provided by the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) in 2013, racist violence, evictions, threats, and more subtle forms of discrimination have increased over the past two years in Slovakia.