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Oleksandra Matviichuk in conversation with Mario Arriagada

Hay Festival & Lviv BookForum series

Querétaro 2024, 

Oleksandra Matviichuk (Ukraine), is a lawyer and activist of the Center for Civil Liberties, awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize together with Memorial. Human rights defender, works on Ukrainian and OSCE issues. She currently heads the human rights organization Civil Liberties and also coordinates the work of the Euromaidan SOS initiative group. She has experience in creating horizontal structures for the mass participation of people in human rights activities against attacks on rights and freedoms, as well as several years with her practice of documenting violations during armed conflicts. In 2016 she received the Defender of Democracy Award for her "unique contribution to the promotion of democracy and human rights" of missions to the OSCE. In 2017 she became the first woman to participate in the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program at Stanford University. She will talk with Mario Arriagada.

With simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish

Oleksandra Matviichuk in conversation with Mario Arriagada