Oleksandra Matviichuk

Oleksandra Matviichuk heads Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), which was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize along with Memorial, the largest human rights organization in Russia, and Ales Bialiatski, a democracy and human rights advocate in Belarus. Founded in 2007 to strengthen civil society and democracy in Ukraine, the CCL has this year focused on investigating and documenting war crimes against the country’s civilian population by the Russian military following its invasion.