Barbora Bukovská
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Barbora Bukovska is a Czech-Slovak human rights attorney, known for her work on racial discrimination of Roma (Gypsies) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. She is a founder of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Kosice, Slovakia [1]. In 2002, she uncovered a practice of forced sterilization of Romani women in Slovakia in her report "Body and Soul", for which she was prosecuted by the Slovak Government. Since then, she has been representing victims of the practice at the courts. She received a Woman of the World Award by Marie Clair USA in 2004.
