Anna Šabatová

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Anna Šabatová (born June 23, 1951 in Brno ) is a Czech civil rights activist and former Czechoslovak dissident. She played a key role in the work of Charter 77 and its projects, partly as a spokesperson. From 2001 to 2007 she was the deputy of the Czech ombudsman and from February 2014 to February 2020 she was ombudswoman, in Czech “public defender of human rights” ( veřejná ochránkyně práv ). Since 2008, Šabatová has been chairman of the Czech Helsinki Committee .

Anna Šabatová (2001)

Life

Dissident

Anna Šabatová studied philosophy and history at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Brno from 1969 . On November 15, 1971, she was arrested in her fifth semester and sentenced to three years imprisonment for subversive activity and undermining the republic. Before that, Šabatová had prepared leaflet campaigns on the occasion of the elections and distributed samizdat literature together with her father, the dissident Jaroslav Šabata , and her two brothers, among others . She was released on parole in December 1973.

She was not allowed to continue her studies after she was released. She then worked in the commercial sector, received unqualified jobs or was on maternity leave.

She continued her opposition activity. In December 1976 she signed the declaration of the newly emerging Charter 77. From 1978 to 1989 she was a co-founder and long-time activist as well as spokeswoman for the Committee for the Defense of Unjustly Persecuted Persons , and from 1978 to 1989 she also participated in the publication of Charter 77 -Bulletins Informace o Chartě 77 , during the imprisonment of her husband Petr Uhl she was responsible for the publication between 1979 and 1984. In 1987 she was co-founder and spokeswoman of the Polish-Czechoslovak Solidarity , which was supposed to coordinate the cooperation of the Polish and Czechoslovak dissidents, from 1988 to 1989 she worked in the Eastern European Information Agency .

After 1989

After the velvet revolution and the system change in Czechoslovakia in 1989, Šabatová first worked as an official at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs as a consultant for contact with non-governmental organizations . She completed her distance learning course in Czech language and literature at the Charles University in Prague in 1996 with a master's degree and worked as an editor. From 1994 to 2000 she was active in the Hnutí občanské solidarity a tolerance (movement for civic solidarity and tolerance). In 1998 she was deputy chairwoman of the Municipal Office for Social and Preventive Services at the Prague Magistrate. In the same year, on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, she was the first Eastern European woman to receive the United Nations Human Rights Prize .

On January 25, 2001, at the suggestion of President Václav Havel , Šabatová was elected Deputy Ombudswoman by the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic . During her work, the office of the ombudsman in the Czech Republic developed into a generally respected institution that enjoyed the trust of over 70 percent of the population. Šabatová held this position until 2007.

In October 2002, Šabatová received the 1st Degree Medal of Merit from President Václav Havel . After 2007 she taught social politics and work at Charles University. On January 31, 2008 she was elected chairman of the Český helsinský výbor , she is a member of the European Committee against Torture of the Council of Europe . In the elections to the Senate in March 2008, Šabatová ran unsuccessfully for the Greens .

Šabatová has been the Czech ombudswoman since February 18, 2014. She held this position until February 2020, when she was replaced by Stanislav Křeček .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Libuše Šilhánová, Osobnost lidských práv: Anna Šabatová [personality of human rights: Anna Šabatová] (interview), in: LIDSKÁ PRÁVA 2/2008, magazine of the Český helsinský výbor , online helcom.cz/view , Czech, accessed on September 27th 2009
  2. ↑ www.ohchr.org/…/previous recipients (PDF; 43 kB), accessed on January 26, 2010
  3. ↑ Středisko empirických výzkumů (Center for Empirical Research), a study from 2006, online http://www.stem.cz/clanek/1163 , Czech, accessed on January 26, 2010
  4. ↑ www.helcom.cz , Communication from the Helsinki Committee, Czech, accessed on January 26, 2010
  5. ↑ http://www.cpt.coe.int/en/members/en-cvs.pdf#page=4 , accessed on January 26, 2010
  6. ↑ Křeček se složením slibu ujal funkce. Úřad ombudsmana v Brně převezme ve čtvrtek , news portal Aktuálně.cz, online at: aktuellne.cz/…
personal data
SURNAME Šabatová, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech dissident, politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno