Wykład Mariany Katzarowej

Serdecznie zapraszamy na wykład wyjątkowego gościa Mariany Katzarowej, Specjalnej Sprawozdawczyni Rady Praw Człowieka ONZ ds. sytuacji praw człowieka w Federacji Rosyjskiej pt. HUMAN RIGHTS LANDSCAPE: CHALLENGES IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

Wydarzenie odbędzie się 16 listopada 2023 r., godz. 9:45-11:15 w auli im. S. Czarnowskiego, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 3.

Ms. Mariana Katzarova (Bulgaria) was appointed as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation by the UN Human Rights Council on 4 April 2023. She officially assumed her function on 1 May 2023. Ms. Katzarova led the UN Human Rights Council mandated examination of the human rights situation in Belarus, in 2021-22. During the first 2 years of the armed conflict in Ukraine (in 2014-16), she led the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission team in Donbas as head of the regional office in Eastern Ukraine. For a decade she headed the Amnesty International investigations of human rights in Russia and the two Chechnya conflicts. With the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, she focused on the war in Bosnia and the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Ms. Katzarova founded RAW in WAR (Reach All Women in War) in 2006 after working as a journalist and human rights investigator in the war zones of Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya. At RAW, she established the annual Anna Politkovskaya Award for women human rights defenders working in war and conflict zones. She was Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on combating human trafficking, and a senior advisor at the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe).