Valentina Ivanovna Cherevatenko
Valentina Ivanovna Tscherewatenko (Russian Валентина Ивановна Череватенко , English Valentina Cherevatenko ; born January 20, 1956 ) is the head of the Russian non-governmental organization » Women from Don «.
Life
Valentina Tscherewatenko studied political science and received her doctorate.
In 1993 she founded the non-governmental organization »Women from the Don« in Novocherkassk . This supports women in social, psychological, legal and other problems. Valentina Tscherewatenko offers seminars in which members of opposing conflict parties are brought into contact with one another. She organized seminars for victims of the Chechen war with Russian military personnel and by women from Ukraine and Russia. Valentina Tscherewatenko calls for social organizations to participate in the process of reconciliation between Ukraine and Russia. In the spring of 2016, she visited the Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadija Savchenko several times in the prison in Novocherkassk.
In June 2016, she was charged with failing to register her organization »Women from the Don« as a "foreign agent", as the Justice Department first requested in 2013. She is threatened with two years of imprisonment because she acted with “criminal intent” ( преступный умысел ). This sentence has not yet been threatened with any of the defendants in similar trials.
Awards
- 2005: Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize within the project 1000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
- 2016: Anna Politkovskaya Prize from the British women's organization Reach All Women in War
- 2016: Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and Rule of Law from the French and German Foreign Ministries
Web links
Валентина Ивановна Череватенко League of Solidarity with Political Prisoners (Russian)
Remarks
- ↑ Valentina Cherevatenko Peacewomen (German)
- ^ Women activist as "agent" persecutes Die Presse, June 29, 2016
- ↑ 1000 PeaceWomen Worldwide. Valentina Cherevatenko , accessed on: April 13, 2018 (German digital version of 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe , series: Contrast Book, Verlag Scalo, Zurich 2005)
- ↑ Valentina Cherevatenko receives Anna Politkovskaya Award Kawkaski Usel , October 7, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chervatenko, Valentina Ivanovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Череватенко, Валентина Ивановна (Russian); Cherevatenko, Valentina (English) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian head of a non-governmental organization |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1956 |