Center for Civil Liberties, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Oleksandra Matviichuk is the head of the Ukrainian human rights organization “Center for Civil Liberties” and coordinates the work of the initiative group “Euromaidan SOS”. She is the author of several reports for the UN, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE, and the International Criminal Court. In 2016, Oleksandra Matviichuk received the “Defender of Democracy” award for “exceptional contribution to the promotion of democracy and human rights” from missions to the OSCE. Actively engaged in advocacy of international support for Ukraine and work on bringing those responsible for war crimes in Ukraine to justice, as well as bringing Russia to account for the war it wages against Ukraine. Laureate of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize as head of the Center for Civil Liberties.