On April 18, the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights UK, and the United States Institute of Peace convened a conversation on holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for war crimes and massive human rights violations in Ukraine. 

Speakers:

• Lise Grande, President and CEO, U.S. Institute of Peace, opening remarks

• Kerry Kennedy, moderator and President of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights

• Recorded remarks from: Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• Lanny Breuer, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Vice Chair, Covington & Burling LLP

• Mark Ellis, Executive Director, International Bar Association

• Harold Hongju Koh, former Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State

• Ambassador William Taylor, Vice President, Russia and Europe, U.S. Institute of Peace

• Eka Tkeshelashvili, Head of Program (COP), Support to Anti-Corruption Champion Institutions in Ukraine; member of Board of Trustees of Nizami Ganjavi Center

• Beth Van Schaack, U.S. State Department’s Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice

• Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine

• Kateryna Yushchenko, former First Lady of Ukraine