Aet Kukk, head of Estonia’s Human Rights Institute, dies

Aet Kukk, chief executive of Estonia’s Human Rights Institute and its annual human rights conference, has died, ERR reported.

Kukk worked for many years in human rights in Estonia and through international cooperation projects abroad. Under her leadership, commemorations were held at Freedom Square in Tallinn for deportees and people who fled by boat.

She served on the Chancellor of Justice’s Human Rights Council, the council of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory and the University of Tartu Faculty of Law’s council for its master’s programme in international law and human rights.

Since 2023, Kukk had represented Estonia on the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. In 2022, the president awarded her the Order of the White Star, Fifth Class, for her work on human rights.