Наталія

• ABOUT ME
Lawyer specialising in international humanitarian and criminal law, with experience working alongside Ukraine’s principal justice and law-enforcement bodies, including the Office of the Prosecutor General, regional and specialised environmental prosecution offices, the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police.
• EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Master’s and Bachelor’s Diplomas, ‘International Law’, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Bachelor’s and Master’s Diploma, ‘Legal Translation’.

• WORK EXPERIENCE
LEGAL CONSULTANT – GLOBAL RIGHTS COMPLIANCE – 01/02/2023 – Current

National Expert on the Pillaging of Ukraine’s Natural Resources Project
Part of the research team mapping the seizure of Ukraine’s raw materials in the occupied territories and drafting a baseline assessment report identifying patterns and emblematic cases for further investigation
Deputy Team Lead, Environmental Mobile Justice Team
Thematic team providing advice to the specialized environmental prosecution offices on the investigation and prosecution of environmental war crimes committed by the Russian Federation
Key responsibilities:
Organizational: Supervision of the team under the direction of the Team Lead, engagement with prosecutorial and other law-enforcement authorities, allocation of tasks among team members, quality control and review of deliverables prior to submission to the Team Lead.
Substantive: Drafting case reviews and providing legal and investigative support to the prosecution offices on criminal proceedings, including assessing the appropriateness of charges under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and their consistency with applicable international criminal law and international humanitarian law standards; providing legal advice to the Regional Prosecutor’s Offices and the Office of the Prosecutor General on other ICL/IHL-related matters; designing and delivering capacity-building training programmes for prosecutors and investigators.

Highlights
• Co-organized and co-delivered two workshops on the investigation and prosecution of environmental war crimes for representatives of regional prosecution offices and the Office of the Prosecutor General.
• Co-organized and delivered a workshop on international humanitarian law for the Zaporizhzhia Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
• Co-organized and co-delivered specialized case-building training for regional prosecution offices and the Office of the Prosecutor General on the investigation and legal qualification of the war crimes of appropriation and pillage of natural resources.
• Provided legal and investigative support to the Kherson Specialized Environmental Prosecutor’s Office in the investigation into the appropriation of Askania-Nova, including reviewing case materials, advising on the legal qualification, and developing the investigation plan.

• Provided legal and investigative support to the Kharkiv Specialized Environmental Prosecutor’s Office in the investigation into the destruction of the Oskil dam that resulted in the issuance of two notices of suspicion to the high-ranking commanders for the crime of ecocide and war crimes.

LEGAL ASSISTANT – KNOETZL LAW FIRM – 07/2022 – 02/2023 – VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Responsibilities: legal research, conducting and drafting preliminary case assessments, drafting submissions.
Key highlights: worked on Casinos Austria v Macedonia, ICSID, Stay of Enforcement and Annulment Proceedings, several high-profile VIAC cases.

LEGAL ASSISTANT – NGO, PLATFORM FOR PEACE AND HUMANITY – 02/2021 – 05/2021

Responsibilities: legal research on human rights law; writing Weekly News Recaps on recent developments in international justice, peace and security; assistance with conference organisation
Key highlights: worked as part of the team on “Admissibility of war crimes committed by the Russian Federation before the International Criminal Court”, “The promotion of the universal right to peace” projects.

• PUBLICATIONS
2026
Russia's killing of nature: war crimes of different kind
Examining the applicability of the war crime of destruction of property to damage caused to Ukraine’s Natural Reserve Fund.
Authors: Nataliia Pavlovych
• LANGUAGE SKILLS
Mother tongue(s): Ukrainian
Other language(s): English (fluent), German (conversational)

• OTHER PROJECTS
2026 – CURRENT
FAO Working Group on the Implications of Armed Conflict on the Right to Food
Contributed substantive inputs on the implications of conflict-related environmental harm on the realization of the right to food with a focus on the Ukrainian perspective.