Yevgen Zakharov

Education

• August 1998 – first school on monitoring human rights, Helsinki Foundation
• September 1996 – participant of the USIA’s International Visitors Program “Development of Democracy in Multiethnic Societies”
• September 1991 – second summer school on human rights, Helsinki Foundation
• 1982-1985 – post graduate student of the Rostov institute railway engineers
• 1985 – Cand. Sci.
• 1970-1975 – Kharkiv National University, faculty of mechanics and mathematics
• 1960-1970 – secondary school, Kharkiv

  Working activities

• Since February 1997 to date – executive director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, editor-in-chief of the weekly «Prava Ludyny» and quarterly «Freedom of Expression and Privacy».
• 1993-1997 – editor-in-chief of the journal “Human Rights in Ukraine”
• 1987-1993 – Head of the Bureau on automation of design of electric machines and apparatus of the “Kharkiv Electro-Mechanical Plant”
• 1975-1987 – an engineer-mathematician, Special Design Bureau of Electric Motors, Kharkiv

• Since 25 January 2012 – head of the Board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
• Since 2011 – director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
• In 2010-2011 – member of the Board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
• In 2004-2008 – head of the Board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
• Since 1994 – a member of the Board of International "Memorial" Society.
• 1992-2011 – co-chairperson of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
• In 1990-2008 – a deputy-chairman of the Kharkiv Town Commission of restoring rights of the unjustly repressed.
• In 1990-1994 – a deputy of the Kharkiv Town Council.
• In 1989-2002 – a member of Moscow Helsinki Group.
• In 1988-1992 – correspondent of the newspaper «Express Chronicle»
• Participation in the law-protective movement since the seventies.

  Civic activities

Publications

• Ukraine Genocide Analysis
• HUMAN DIMENSION OF THE UKRAINIAN FAMINE
• Respect for economic, social and cultural rights in Ukraine
• Selected decisions of the European Court of Human Rights of Ukraine - 2006
• Human rights - my personal opinion 2000

Awards

1. Laureate of Vasyl Stus Prize, January 2012
2. , October 2008.
3. The Independent Cultural Journal “Ї” Award «For Intellectual Courage», December 2007