Peace Prize winner 2024
OLEKSANDRA
MATVIICHUK
The Pahl Peace Prize 2024 honors Oleksandra Matviichuk for her commitment against injustice and for documenting war crimes at enormous personal risk. Her fearless work in the face of the occupation of Crimea, the atrocities in the Donbas and her initiative for the tribunal are exemplary of her passionate fight for freedom and humanity.
Ordinary people have much more influence than they think they do. Voices of millions of people from different countries can change world history faster than interventions of the UN.
Oleksandra Matviichuk
biography
OLEKSANDRA MATVIICHUKS
Oleksandra Matviichuk is a human rights lawyer focusing on issues in Ukraine and the OSCE region. She heads the human rights NGO Center for Civil Liberties and coordinates the activities of the initiative group Euromaidan SOS.
The Center for Civil Liberties works to promote human rights and democracy in Ukraine and the OSCE region. It works on legal reforms, conducts public inspections of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary, organizes educational initiatives and implements international solidarity programs.
Oleksandra Matviichuk |TEDWomen 2023
Euromaidan SOS was founded in response to the violent repression of a peaceful student proteOleksandra Matviichuk is the author of numerous alternative reports that have been submitted to various UN bodies, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE and the International Criminal Court.
Since the start of Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2014, the initiative has monitored political persecution in occupied Crimea, documented war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Donbas region, and led international campaigns such as #LetMyPeopleGo and #SaveOlegSentsov to secure the release of political prisoners by Russian authorities.
In response to the full-scale war that began in February 2022, Oleksandra Matviichuk, together with other partners, launched the Tribunal for Putin initiative to document international crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in all regions of Ukraine affected by Russian aggression.
Oleksandra Matviichuk is the author of numerous alternative reports that have been submitted to various UN bodies, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE and the International Criminal Court.
Award ceremony 2024
