Šimůnková steps down as government’s human rights commissioner.

Monika Šimůnková has handed in her resignation as the Czech government’s human rights commissioner. Thursday’s move came just 48 hours after she was removed as the head of the human rights department at the Office of the Government. She said the reasons given for her dismissal from that post were spurious; the real reason was that the cabinet does not attach sufficient importance to human rights, she said.

Author: Ian Willoughby