Dr. Nataliia Hendel

Dr. Nataliia Hendel is a research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and a researcher at the Institute of Information, Security and Law of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. Dr Nataliia Hendel is a member of the Ukrainian Association of International Law, a member of the European Society of International Law and a member of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. Dr Hendel holds an LLM and a PhD in international law.
Dr. Nataliia Hendel is an expert and trainer on international humanitarian law of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, the Training Centre for Prosecutors of Ukraine, The Higher School of Public Administration, and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union. She is an expert in the working group of the Council of Europe Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) within the “HELP for Ukraine including during wartime” to develop a course on international humanitarian law and human rights. She was a member of Ukraine’s Interdepartmental Commission for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (2015–2017). She is a member of the working group on the protection of the natural environment from the consequences of armed conflict of the Interdepartmental Commission on the Application and Implementation of International Humanitarian Law in Ukraine (2023).