Marharyta Vorychava
Marharyta Vorychava (born 6 June 2001) is a Belarusian activist and politician. She is also known as Margarita Vorikhova or Marharyta Vorykhava.
Her work focuses on gender equality, gender diversity, and European integration. She has been active in the European Youth Parliament, the Belarusian Students’ Association, and the Council of Europe Contact Group on Belarus.
She serves as an Advisor to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Youth Policy and Students, and she is a member of the Belarusian Coordination Council.
Vorychava was elected to the Council of Europe’s Advisory Council on Youth in 2023, and in April 2024 she became vice-chair of the bureau of the Advisory Council.
In August 2024, she was nominated as Representative for Youth in the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus.
Her mother, Inesa Vorychava, was detained for four hours of questioning on 30 November 2023. Marharyta viewed this as repression linked to her political activism.
In 2024, she described Belarusian nationalism as a process that should evolve with context, with key ideas of freedom, independence, and equality.
In late August 2024, she criticized a plan by President Alexander Lukashenko to create a Harvard-style educational hub to deter emigration, saying that Belarus needs democracy, human rights, and the release of political prisoners to rebuild the country.
She received the “Young Women of Europe” award for 2023 from the Women of Europe Awards, part of the European Movement International.
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