Human Rights and Armed Conflict in Ukraine
Nataliia Voitseshyna
LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law
The Klau Center is proud to support this new speaker series, presented by Human Rights ND. The HumanRightsND speaker series brings human rights advocates, current master’s students in the LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law, together with the wider Notre Dame community for informal presentations on current topics in regional human rights.
Nataliia Voitseshyna obtained her law degree from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. While in law school, she participated in multiple moot court competitions and completed a fellowship at the Kyiv office of the Solidarity Center. Later she presided over the Moot Court Society of the Law Faculty. In 2016, Nataliia interned with the British law firm Global Rights Compliance, working on their war crimes strategy in Ukraine. Thereafter, she held a consultancy position at the Prosecutor’s Office for Crimea in Ukraine. Most recently, Ms. Voitseshyna was a lawyer at the NGO Regional Center for Human Rights, where she handled cases on human rights violations in the occupied Crimea before the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations human rights system.