Barbora Bukovská

Barbora Bukovská is a human rights lawyer. She is currently leading legal and advocacy work at the UN and EU for ARTICLE 19, an international organisation dealing with freedom of expression.

Since 2009, she has been a Senior Director for Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19, an international free speech organisation. In this capacity,she has been leading on the development of all ARTICLE 19 policies and legal work, covering a broad range of freedom of expression issues. She is also overseeing legal support to ARTICLE 19 offices in Mexico, Brazil, USA, Kenya, Senegal, Tunisia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kazakhstan and international operations.

Prior to ARTICLE 19, Barbora worked with various organisations on a range of human rights issues, including protection from discrimination, access to justice, deprivation of liberty, reproductive rights and community development. She also initiated about 50 cases at the European Court of Human Rights on these issues and has published a number of reports and articles on a broad range of human rights.

Barbora is a member of the Centre for Investigative Journalism´s Board of Trustees.

She 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. In 1998 and 1999, she was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Law School in New York.