MEDIA ADVISORY - Canada Tour Details for Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk

OTTAWA, ON, May 31, 2024 /CNW/ - Tour details for Canadian speaking tour for 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk, president of the Centre for Civil Liberties (Ukraine):

Monday, June 3, 2024 (OTTAWA)

11:00 am	Luncheon with women leaders Private location
1:00 pm	Meeting with Ukrainian Ambassador Yuliia Kovaliv Embassy of Ukraine, 310 Somerset Street West, Ottawa
4:00 pm	Meeting with senior representation of the Government of Canada Details to be disclosed directly by GoC
5:00 pm	Diplomatic reception hosted by embassies of Sweden and Norway (Nobel sponsor countries) and Ukraine Private
7:15 pm	Testimony before Senate Committee on Human Rights (SDIR) Senate of Canada Building; room to be disclosed by committee directorate

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (OTTAWA)

8:30 am	Breakfast meeting with parliamentarians, hosted by Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group Room 315, Wellington Building
11:15 am	Meeting with Official Opposition shadow critics 901 Justice Building
12:15 am	Visit to "De Ty" / "Де Ти" ("Where are you?") exhibit about the 20,000 children stolen by Russia Wellington Street, outside Parliament Hill
1:00 pm	Private group meeting with Senators
2:00 pm	Attendance in Senate Gallery for Statements
2:40 pm	Attendance in House of Commons Speaker's Gallery for Question Period
3:10 pm	Private meeting with Speaker of the House of Commons
3:30 pm	Testimony before House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights (SDIR) Wellington Building; room to be disclosed by committee directorate
6:30 pm	"Q&A with Oleksandra" Fundraising Reception (ticketed event; sold out) Café Ukraine, 911 Carling Avenue, Ottawa

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 (OTTAWA)

Thursday, June 6, 2024 (MONTREAL / TORONTO)

8:30 am	Breakfast with Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education 666 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal
11:00 am	First Inaugural John Lemieux Human Rights Lecture, followed by armchair discussion with Hon. Irwin Cotler and Hon. Chris Alexander Organized by the  Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights (MIGS)
12:30 pm	Private reception Montreal
7:00 pm	Fundraising gala featuring keynote address by Ms. Matviichuk + musical performance by Chantal Kreviazuk Old Mill Toronto, 21 Old Mill Road

Friday, June 7, 2024 (TORONTO)

8:00 am	Fundraising breakfast with business community Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street West, Toronto
10:30 am	Meeting with students St. Demetrius School, 125 La Rose Avenue, Etobicoke
6:00 pm	Lecture with university students University of Toronto
8:00 pm	Dinner with faculty members Private

Saturday, June 8, 2024 (WINNIPEG)

2:00 pm	Tour of Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre 184 Alexander Avenue, Winnipeg
7:00 pm	Fundraising gala featuring keynote address by Ms. Matviichuk + musical performance by Chantal Kreviazuk The MET, 281 Donald Street, Winnipeg

Sunday, June 9, 2024 (WINNIPEG)

12:00 pm	Laying of flowers at Holodomor Memorial 50 Main Street, Winnipeg (on the grounds of City Hall)
2:00 pm	Tour of Canadian Museum for Human Rights, with museum leadership 85 Israel Asper Way, Winnipeg
3:00 pm	Joint media availability with leadership of Canadian Museum for Human Rights Garden of Contemplation, Canadian Museum for Human Rights 85 Israel Asper Way, Winnipeg
4:00 pm	Film Screening of BBC documentary: "Taken: Putin's Stolen Children" Canadian Museum for Human Rights 85 Israel Asper Way, Winnipeg

BACKGROUND

Oleksandra Matviichuk and her organization, the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), have been documenting Russian war crimes in Ukraine for ten years. In 2014, the Center was the world's first human rights organization to send its own mobile teams to document war crimes in the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of occupied Ukraine. The Centre continues this important work now in all areas of Ukraine.

The Center for civil Liberties has been very active in documenting war crimes in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where they have reported more than 19,000 war crimes in this community alone. In sum, the Centre has already officially documented more than 131,000 war crimes perpetrated by Russian forces in Ukraine.

Ms. Matviichuk's Canadian speaking tour will raise awareness of war crimes in Ukraine perpetrated by the Russian Federation and will underscore the plight of the 20,000+ Ukrainian children abducted by the Kremlin, who are now being either fostered with Russian families to erase their cultural and linguistic identity, are in cultural re-education camps, or being trained as "cannon fodder" for the Russian war machine.

The tour is being organized by the Canada-Ukraine Foundation.

SOURCE Canada-Ukraine Foundation

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