Alexander Muchnik

Alexander Muchnik (; ; born May 10, 1954, in Odesa, USSR) is a lawyer , human rights activist and journalist.

He is a founder and the president of the Dr. Haass Social Assistance Fund, which was the first non-profit non-governmental charitable organization in the Soviet Union.

He is also the president of the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights.

Education In 1981, Muchnik graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law, Ilya Mechnikov State University of Odesa (now Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University).

In 2005, he was appointed as an adviser to the Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

He has authored several books, including Philosophy of dignity, freedom and human rights semi-presidential republic in Ukraine, and constitutional reform in Ukraine

Among his other projects are the Charter of the city of Odesa, Law of Ukraine "On civil society in Ukraine", a new edition of the Constitution of Ukraine; a number of comments on the fundamental rights of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and brochures about the Dr. Haass Social Assistance Fund (1991, New York, US).

He was assisted by Boris Litvak in the creation of the Center for Rehabilitation of Disabled Children "The Future", better known as the "House with an angel".

International activity

On May 28, 1991, Alexander Muchnik made a presentation on the history and activities of the Dr. Haass Social Assistance Fund in the Center for the Study of Philanthropy (New York City, United States), and a Brochure was published by the centre and distributed among the US charitable organizations. and is recognized as a founder of juridical publicism in Ukraine.