Stekhlikova, Dzhamilya Almasovna

Born on February 6, 1962 in Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR, in the family of architect Ordabaev Almas Baimukhanovich and chemical scientist Sembaeva Rauza Abdykhamitovna, daughter of the former Minister of Education of the Kazakh SSR Sembaev Abdykhamit Ibneevich . Comes from the Turkic tribe Dulat . In August 1988, together with her spouse a citizen of Czechoslovakia, Miloslav Stekhlik, she moved to Czechoslovakia , began to engage in social activities. February 17, 1992 by decision of the President of Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel received Czechoslovak citizenship. From January 2007 to January 2009, Jamilya Stekhlikova was the Czech Minister for Human and Minority Rights .

In 1986 she graduated from the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov in Moscow. From 1985 to 1988, she worked as a researcher and led pedagogical activities at the Department of Psychiatry at the S. S. Korsakov Psychiatric Clinic of the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M.Sechenov . She left the clinic in connection with the move to Czechoslovakia. In 1988 - 1990 - a psychiatrist at the regional health center in the city of Chomutov in Czechoslovakia . After the Velvet Revolution from 1990 to 1997, she worked as a leading methodologist at the National Center for Health Protection in Prague and the National Institute of Health in Prague . From 1998 to 2006, she taught at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkine in Usti nad Labem . Since 1998, he has been conducting private psychiatric practice, specializing in comprehensive medical and socio-psychological care for HIV-positive people and AIDS patients . In this area, he collaborates with Prague's Lighthousem, a social assistance center for the most affected by HIV .

Political Activities

During training and work at the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov, she participated in the distribution of self-published poets Vladislav Khodasevich and Joseph Brodsky . For political reasons, she was not allowed to travel abroad even to scientific conferences. The investigation of "anti-Soviet" activity was stopped in January 1988 during the period of publicity and perestroika .

After moving to Czechoslovakia in 1988 , in the northern Bohemian city ​​of Chomutov , which lies in the border region of the Czech Republic in the Sudeten region , she was involved in the protection of nature and settlements while mining brown coal, and collected biographies and oral testimonies about the fate of local representatives of national minorities, especially Sudeten Germans , Jews and gypsies .

In 1998, she was elected to the municipality of the city ​​of Chomutov , was in the city council of deputies continuously until 2010, and the last two terms were elected adviser to the city council. In 1998 she joined the Green Party , was elected chairman of the regional organization in the Ustetskiy Territory , deputy chairman of the Green Party . She withdrew from the Green Party at the party congress on January 25, 2014. According to Stekhlikova, the reason was the sharp deviation of the Green Party to the left of its general line and the lack of self-reflection of the party after the defeat in the parliamentary elections in 2013.

From January 2007 to January 2009, Jamilya Stekhlikova was the Czech Minister for Human and Minority Rights . She became the first Minister of Government of the Czech Republic of non- Czech origin.

One of the important steps in the activities of Minister Stekhlikova was the creation of the Agency for Social Integration in the places of residence of Roma citizens and socially weak persons. In collaboration with the Ministry of Justice, she drafted an anti- pillar law and the Law on Ensuring Equality, an anti-discrimination law that ensures equal treatment of citizens and remedies against discrimination . Some of its bills, however, did not receive sufficient public support, such as the Law prohibiting corporal punishment of children . She resigned on January 23, 2009 during the reorganization of the government. Her successor was Mikhail Kotsab.

Subsequently, Jamilya Stekhlikova joined the Liberal-Ecological Party and was elected to the party’s leadership at the constituent congress on February 16, 2014 . In the 2014 European Parliament elections, the Czech Liberal-Ecological Party failed.

Jamilya Stekhlikova is a member of the Committee on Sexual Minorities of the State Government Council for Human Rights. May 17, 2016 was awarded the prize “bePROUD” (“Be proud”) for his life-long contribution to the protection of the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people ( LGBT ).