He served there on different positions β e. He moved to the US Embassy Prague in where was responsible for the cooperation with the non-profits. I have been encountering the issue of violence against women in my professional career for more than 17 years.
As a student of the Faculty of Law at Comenius University in Bratislava I worked as a legal counsellor in a free legal counselling centre of the Slovak Helsinki Committee focusing on human rights enforcement and antidiscrimination.
Although the issue of violence against women was not articulated as gender based discrimination or a breach of human rights in Slovakia at the time, women experiencing violence in an intimate relationship were approaching the centre.
Both of these positions gave me the great opportunity to confront the system and the real experience of women experiencing violence, as well as the way the issue of violence against women is reflected in the Slovak legal system and the decision-making practice of relevant public institutions.
This enabled me to broaden my scope of activities to include solicitor-related, analytical and educational work.
