Yevgeniy Zhovtis is the director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law since 1993. Before he graduated with honors from the High Law School “Adilet” in 1999, Zhovtis served as a union leader in the early 1990s and has been an outspoken critic of human rights violations in Kazakhstan for…
Svitlana Zalishchuk has been serving as an elected member of Parliament of Ukraine since 2014. She is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a chair of the Sub-Committee on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, and a co-chair of the Parliamentary Friendship group between Ukraine and United Kingdom. Zalishchuk began her career as a TV…
Hans Tippenhauer is the president of Fondation Espoir, an organization focusing on health, education, social communications, and democracy building in Haiti. He also serves as a regional coordinator in the Caribbean regionl for REDLAD. In 2005, Fondation Espoir created the Jeune Ayiti Network which linked over 125 youth organizations across the country. Tippenhauer was…
Since 2004, Natalia Taubina has served as the director of the Public Verdict Foundation, a legal aid organization based in Moscow, Russia. In addition to offering free legal assistance and rehabilitation support for victims of human rights abuses committed by Russian police, the organization also raises the awareness of social justice issues in the country.…