Aet Kukk is the CEO of the Estonian Institute of Human Rights and Human Rights Annual Conference. She has worked for a long time in the field of human rights in Estonia and in international cooperation projects abroad. In recent years, she has organised the commemoration days of deportees and boat refugees conducted in March, June and September on Liberty Square, in Tallinn. She belongs to the Council of Human Rights at the Office of the Chancellor of Justice, serves as a Member of the Council of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, and as a Council member of the MA Programme in International Law and Human Rights at the University of Tartu School of Law. Aet will represent Estonia in ECRI (European Commission against Racism and Intolerance) from 2023.
In 2022, Aet Kukk was honored with the Order of the White Star Fifth Class from the president of Estonia for her work with human rights.