Veronika Marchenko (activist)
Veronika Marchenko (Russian: Верони́ка Алекса́ндровна Ма́рченко, Veronika Aleksandrovna Marchenko) is a Russian activist.[1] In 2008 she was the head of the NGO Mother's Right Foundation, which she founded as a student in 1988.
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Life
The Mother's Right Foundation works to expose the inhumane conditions that led to the deaths of Russian service members in peacetime,[2] as well as to help families of the dead get compensation and to punish those guilty of deaths.[1][3][4] It also presses for an end to hazing and bullying.[3] This NGO is mainly funded by foreign grants.[5][4]
Marchenko has also worked on the journal Yunost.[6] In 1986 she was on the show "12th Storey", broadcast by Soviet Central TV, and she was in the International Youth Movement "Next Stop Soviet" (1987-1990).[6] In November 1998 she was awarded the Public Recognition prize, and in December 2002 the Open Society Institute in Russia awarded her the prize For Selfless Work.[6] She also received a 2009 International Women of Courage Award.[1]
References
- The Secretary of State's 2009 International Women of Courage Awards
- Anne White (5 April 1999). Democratization in Russia under Gorbachev, 1985–91: The Birth of a Voluntary Sector. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 103–. ISBN 978-1-349-27372-0.
- Veronika Marchenko: "We are Ready for a Long Fight in Order To Make the Law Prevail" | DipNote
- Veronika Marchenko, head of a Russian NGO protecting the rights
- The Mothers' Right foundation: Russian soldiers' mothers turn grief into action - Telegraph
- Veronika Marchenko - Rights in Russia