Janka Debrecéniová

lawyer, consultant

Janka Debrecéniová holds a law degree (Mgr.) from Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, a MJur degree from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from the Trnava University in Trnava. In 2009, she graduated from the prestigious Women’s Human Rights Training Institute. She is also an alumna of the International Visitors’ Program (2005). Since 2000, she has been working for Citizen, Democracy and Accountability where she participates in the organisation´s advocacy, litigation, publication, educational, and research projects, mainly in the fields of equality, non-discrimination and the human rights of women. She has rich experience with training judges, labour inspectorates, public administration, law students and other groups in these fields. From 2009 to 2016, she was a member of the European Network of Legal Experts in the Non-Discrimination Field. Besides other publications, articles and reports, she is an author of a comprehensive commentary on the Slovak Anti-Discrimination Act. She has also been actively involved in legislation-making in fields related to equality and non-discrimination. For example, she contributed, as a member of a governmental committee, to a significant amendment of the Anti-discrimination Act (2007, 2010), and also to amendments of various other pieces of legislation (e. g. the Labour Code, the Civil Procedure Act). She has also successfully represented various clients in gender-related employment discrimination judicial proceedings.

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