Marina Pisklakova-Parker

Marina Pisklakova-Parker is the VP, GBV Advocacy at Vital Voices Global Partnership since November 2022. Prior to that she has been working on GBV response and prevention for about thirty years starting the first helpline for battered women in Russia in 1992 and working alone during the first year. In 1993 the Center for the Prevention of Violence “ANNA” was founded based on the first helpline. As one of the original Vital Voices Global Network members, Ms. Pisklakova-Parker and her NGO Center ANNA actively worked on the prevention of GBV in Russia and Eurasia building a movement, working in policy change, raising awareness on different forms of gender-based violence, implementing Justice Institutes and leadership training programs as well as coordinating the Network of about 150 organizations in the region. She has been connected to other leaders of the VV Network through joint work, support, and mentoring. Ms. Pisklakova-Parker was honored by the international organization Human Rights Watch in 1997 and in 1998 by Human Rights Watch (California) together with five other human rights defenders from different countries as the most significant activists of the decade.