Victoria’s Voice: Diary of a Kidnapped Teacher

Director of Communications at the Center for Civil Liberties (CLL) and director of the documentary “Victoria’s Voice: Diary of a Kidnapped Teacher”. CLL was awarded, together with Ales Bailiatski and Memorial, the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 for the defence of Human Rights and the struggle for Democracy. 

She is a project coordinator at the Center for Civil Liberties, a human rights activist and war crimes documenter. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has been documenting war crimes and working with civilian victims of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention. Since 1 February 2022, Natalia Yashchuk has been leading the project “Voices of the Prisoners”, which, since February 2022, has worked to free a new wave of imprisoned people: prisoners of war, civilian hostages and political prisoners. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion unleashed by Russia on 24 February 2022, Natalia Yashchuk has been working to consolidate the efforts of the human rights community, authorities, international organisations and institutions, representatives of foreign governments and activists to resist Russian aggression. In particular, she is actively working for the release of all civilian prisoners as a result of Russian aggression.activamente para lograr la liberación de todos los prisioneros civiles como resultado de la agresión rusa.