Mykola Kuleba

Mykola Kuleba
Микола Кулеба
Born	(1972-03-23) March 23, 1972 (age 53) Kyiv, Ukraine
Organization	Save Ukraine
Website	https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Mykola Mykolaiovych Kuleba (Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Кулеба, born 23 March 1972) is a Ukrainian statesman, children’s rights advocate and humanitarian. He is a pioneer of Ukraine’s children’s rights movement and initiated child welfare reforms and legislation to move Ukraine away from Soviet-era policies towards Western best practices. Kuleba is co-founder and head of Save Ukraine,^[1] Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children’s Rights (2014-2021),^[2] head of the Kyiv Children’s Service (2006-2014), and co-founder of the Ukraine Without Orphans Alliance.^[3]

Save Ukraine has a powerful system for rescuing children from the temporarily occupied territories and the territory of Russia.^[4] Since 2014 Save Ukraine evacuates over 160,000 people from the war zone^[5][6] and since 2022 brought back 565 Ukrainian children from Russia and Russia-occupied territories^[7].

Save Ukraine cooperates with global organizations and governments on 5 continents. Mykola Kuleba spoke in the House of Commons of Canada,^[8] the US Congress,^[9][10] the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament,^[11][12][13] the UN Security Council,^[14][15] and participated in panel discussions at the World Economic Forum,^[7] the Clinton Global Initiative,^[16] and the Global Peace Summit.^[17]

Kuleba was a winner in the 2023 Magnitsky Human Rights Awards for “Outstanding Human Rights Activist”.^[18] Save Ukraine's activities have been recognised by The Last Girl Awards^[19] (2023), Manhae Peace Prize^[20] (2023), International Four Freedoms Award^[21] (2024), and The OXI Day Award^[22] (2024).