Iryna Kopanytsia is a women rights advocate, public speaker, and social lobbyist. She is both the CEO and an Advisory Board Member of White Ribbon Ukraine, an international campaign against domestic violence that operates in over 90 countries around the world.
Iryna has been engaged in the GR and lobbying sector since 2013, having worked in Ukraine, Washington, Brussels, and London, where she coordinated cooperations with the European Parliament and USA Congress members on women rights.
Iryna is also a former CEO of the Miss Ukraine National beauty contest of Miss World in Ukraine.
She has participated in developing a number of laws on the criminalization of domestic violence and mentorship in orphans’ houses. Furthermore, she is involved in the documentation of alledged war crimes involving the kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russians, coordinates the application process of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and assists the application of allied countries to the ICC. Iryna has assisted in initiating cases within Europol and worked alongside European authorities in investigating human trafficking groups operating in Portugal, Poland, and Ukraine. She has also worked on genocide recognition providing historical background and evidence and has applied for “The Eyewitness to Atrocities” of the International Bar Association (IBA, London) on behalf of Ukraine which allows the secure recording of war crimes in a format acceptable in international courts. Finally she involved in a project aimed at collecting a database of evidence of Russians voicing pro-war propaganda.