The world order, based on the UN Charter and international law, is collapsing before our eyes, Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviychuk says.
From: Euromaiden Press BY OLEKSANDRA MATVIICHUK
On 16 May, Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Ukraine-based Center for Civil Liberties, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, delivered a speech at the opening of the Lviv Media Forum, the biggest conference for media professionals in Eastern Europe.
She underscored that occupation does not reduce human suffering but simply makes it invisible. Matviichuk called for a change in the global legal system, demanding that war criminals and the politicians who start war be punished while the war are ongoing, not after it is over. She stressed that the Russia-Ukraine war is not a war between two states but between two systems – authoritarianism and democracy. Matviichuk believes that despite everything, the story of Ukraine is a life-affirming one.
After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many familiar things remained there in the pre-war world, for example, the language, its architecture and the context of its functioning. We faced the fact that it is difficult to find the right words to convey the experience of living through war to the world.
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