Barbora Bukovská
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Barbora Bukovská is a Czech-Slovak human rights attorney, known [1][2] for her work on racial discrimination of Roma people in Czech Republic and Slovakia. She is a founder of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Košice, Slovakia.[3] In 2002, she uncovered a practice of forced sterilization of Romani women in Slovakia in her controversial report "Body and Soul",[4] for which she was criminally prosecuted by the Slovak Government. The Slovak Government rejected the report as unfounded; but it was widely supported and backed up internationally, including by the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress[5], the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe[6], the Amnesty International and others. Since then, she has been representing victims of this practice at the courts. She received a Woman of the World Award by Marie Claire, USA in 2004.[7]
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- ^ www.justiceinitiative.org/db/resource2/fs?file_id=14245
- ^ www.justiceinitiative.org/db/resource2?res_id=101056
- ^ http://www.poradna-prava.sk
- ^ http://poradna-prava.sk/dok/bodyandsoul.pdf
- ^ http://www.justiceinitiative.org/publications/justiceinitiatives/2003/profile/waisgate.pdf
- ^ Commissioner for Human Rights - Recommendation of the Commissioner for Human Rights concerning certain aspects of law and practices relating to sterilization of women in the Slovak Republic
- ^ www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-14380236_ITM
