The European Endowment for Democracy, is pleased to invite you to the screening of the short movie “Voices of Democracy: Ukraine’s Women Leaders”.
This 5-minute movie features seven women-led EED partner organisations in Ukraine that, at a time of war, are are driving efforts to protect human rights, safeguard free speech, and bring people together.
They are Kateryna Pereverzeva of Lyuk Media, a media covering cultural activities happening in war-torn Kharkiv; Leyla Djaksim of the Crimean Tatar Cultural and Sports Centre ‘Kuresh’, empowering Crimean Tatars to take part in civic life; Liubov Halan of Human Rights Centre ‘Pryncyp’ working with war veterans and their families; Mariia Nikitina of Zahyst, defending the rights of people with disabilities in Chernivtsi; Natalia Drodz of Dobrochyn Center NGO creating opportunities for youth in rural areas; Olga Reshetylova of the Media Initiative for Human Rights, monitoring human rights violations in the occupied territories; and Sofiia Skyba of Pershyi Kryvorizkyi, one of the few independent media in the city of Kryvyi Rih. They are only some of the many women that are now leading Ukrainian civil society.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Liubov Halan, Head of Human Rights Centre Pryncyp and Veronika Kucherchuk, Programme Officer at the European Endowment for Democracy.
The event will take place on on Thursday 26 September 2024 at 16:00 at the Ukrainian Civil Society Hub (Station Europe, Place du Luxembourg, 1050 Brussels) The movie is in Ukrainian and English and will be screened with English subtitles.
Register here https://bit.ly/4gvyaad