Mykola Kuleba

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, Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children’s Rights (2014-2021), head of the Kyiv Children’s Service (2006-2014), and co-founder of the Ukraine Without Orphans Alliance.

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

Save Ukraine cooperates with global organizations and governments on 5 continents. Mykola Kuleba spoke in the House of Commons of Canada, the US Congress, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament, the UN Security Council, and participated in panel discussions at the World Economic Forum, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Global Peace Summit.

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