Oleksandra Matviichuk: Fighting for Justice and Human Dignity in Ukraine
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode of Remarkable People, host Guy Kawasaki engages in an eye-opening conversation with Oleksandra Matviichuk, a courageous human rights lawyer based in Ukraine. As the Head of the Center for Civil Liberties and a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Oleksandra shares harrowing accounts of the atrocities committed by Russia during its ongoing war in Ukraine. She discusses her tireless efforts to document war crimes, assist persecuted individuals, and fight for justice on a global scale. Oleksandra emphasizes the resilience of the Ukrainian people and the importance of international support in their struggle for freedom and human dignity. Discover how ordinary people can make an extraordinary impact and learn what it truly means to be human in the face of unimaginable adversity.
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| 0:48.6 | I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people. |
| 0:52.7 | We are on a mission to make you remarkable. And helping me in this |
| 0:57.0 | episode is Alexandra Matvichuk. She is a human rights lawyer based in Ukraine. Since 2012, she has |
| 1:05.5 | served on the Advisory Council under Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights. |
| 1:18.3 | And in 2017, Alexandra became the first Ukrainian woman to participate in Stanford University's emerging leaders program. |
| 1:20.8 | Following the violent suppression of protests in 2013, she coordinated the Euromede an SOS initiative to legally assist persecuted protesters. |
| 1:31.6 | She has spearheaded global campaigns such as hashtag, let my people go, and hashtag save |
| 1:38.0 | Oleg Sentsov, to free prisoners of conscience detained by Russia. |
| 1:42.7 | Among many other awards, Alexandra was named Ukraine's |
| 1:46.7 | 2017 Woman of Courage by the U.S. Embassy, and in 2022, she co-received the Nobel Peace Prize, |
| 1:55.9 | along with the Center for Civil Liberties. Get ready for a really powerful episode. She is our first Nobel |
| 2:03.9 | Prize winner on the Remarkable People podcast. I'm Guy Kawasaki, and now here is a remarkable |
| 2:11.0 | Alexandra Medvedevichuk. Many people are familiar with lawyers in terms of maybe family law or criminal law, but I think a lot of people listening to this podcast may not be familiar with human rights lawyers. So could you please explain what a human rights lawyer does? Human rights lawyers defend human rights and human dignity. |
| 2:41.5 | I was born in Ukraine and this is a country which have a lot of issue with human rights, because we restore our independence only in 19th when Soviet Union collapse. |
| 2:47.6 | And all these years we were trying to build sustainable state institutions like court, |
| 2:55.6 | which can produce justice for people. |
| 2:58.7 | And in such country where institutions are not strong and effective, there are a lot of |
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