Barbora Bukovská

Barbora Bukovská graduated from the Law School of Charles University in Prague and has earned a doctorate degree in law in Slovakia and an LLM degree from Harvard Law School. Since 1994, Barbora has been working with different organisations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia on cases involving discrimination, access to justice, rights of prisoners, deprivation of liberty and spearheaded the development of strategic litigation in respective areas. In 1998-1999, she was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Law School in New York and was also involved in the research on the prison industrial complex at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

In 2001, Barbora founded the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Košice, Slovakia. Here she led efforts to eliminate the practice of forced sterilization of Romani women as well as discrimination of Roma in access to housing, employment and public accommodation. Barbora also previously taught human rights advocacy and practical lawyering at the Legal Clinic for Refugees in Prague. She has published human rights reports and articles on minorities rights, equal opportunities, Roma rights, free legal aid and other human rights related issues.