Adriana Lamačková

Adriana Lamačková is the Legal Adviser for Europe in the International Legal Program. Her work focuses on the protection of reproductive health and rights in Europe, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe.  Adriana was a Network of East-West Women Fellow at the Center in 2004 and a visiting attorney in 2007.  She is also an alumnus of our regional training program, Women's Human Rights Training Insitute.  Adriana’s experience beyond the Center includes coordinating the legal advocacy on reproductive health and rights at ProChoice Slovakia, an NGO working to defend and promote women’s rights; she also worked as a Legal Consultant at the European Roma Rights Centre (Budapest) and as a Legal Adviser at the Office of Slovak Government - Section of Human Rights and Minorities, where she supported the development of Slovakia’s first-ever anti-discrimination lawAdriana received a Master of Laws from the Law Faculty at University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, Slovakia. She also holds an LL.M. from the University of Toronto, where she was a Reproductive Health Law Scholar, and PhD in International Law, Law of the European Union and Constitutional Law from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She was a visiting researcher in reproductive rights at Queen Mary, University of London, and the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.