Antonina Vykhrest

joined the Council of Europe in 2015 as advisor for the Special Advisor for Ukraine of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE). She subsequently designed and launched the CoE Project “Strengthening the Human Rights Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine”. As of 2017, she is managing the joint CoE and EU Project “Improving Women’s Access to Justice in the Six Eastern Partnership Countries” (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine) under the Gender Equality Unit of the Directorate General for Democracy.

Ms. Vykhrest has previously worked on a diverse set of human rights issues, providing legal analysis, monitoring and documenting human rights violations in the field including on conflict-related sexual violence, as a Fulbright Fellow, as well as with research institutions and international NGOs in Geneva before the human rights mechanisms of the UN.

Antonina Vykhrest holds an LLM in International Law of Human Rights and Criminal Justice from the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights/Utrecht University Law School and a BA in Political Science and International Comparative Studies from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.