Maria Kurinna is a human rights expert, with a background in diplomacy and a strong record of international advocacy experience, advocacy campaigns promoting rights of women and girls in Ukraine, child rights, rights of IDPs and CAP in the context of Russian aggression. Maria has experience in advocating at the UN HRC, UN OHCHR, Committee on the Rights of the Child, CEDAW,CoE, European Parliament. Currently, Maria is international advocacy chief of the Human Rights Centre ZMINA. ZMINA has been focused on monitoring human rights violations in the temporarily occupied Crimea and currently is documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity as a member of https://www.5am.in.ua/en Maria is passionate about promoting human rights and bring to account perpetrators to more justice.
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