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Marianna Muravyeva has been engaged in research and policy 
activities with public and voluntary sector organisations since 1996. 
She has worked as a researcher, trainer and professor for academic and 
non-academic agencies and projects, including the UN (UN WOMEN and UNDP programs in Central Asia), Council of Europe (national expert for Russia), NGOs and a number of universities in Russia, Finland, the US and the UK. 
Prof. Muravyeva’s research has been focused on human rights, in particular, on human rights of women, gender equality, gender mainstreaming in international and national law and policies. She also has an additional qualification in research and expertise on violence against women, family violence and sex crimes. She worked as a volunteer and a project officer for a number of NGOs in St. Petersburg dealing with gender-based violence and discrimination, which prompted her to receive an additional education in human rights (Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights at the University of Lund, Sweden, 2007) and move to train human rights officers and teach human rights to students. 
Professor Muravyeva started being engaged with international organisations in 2007 with her first assignment for UNDP Uzbekistan. Since then she worked with various UNDP offices, Council of 
Europe and European Union Agency for Asylum on assignments connected to human rights, political prosecution, gender equality, human rights of women, human rights of LGBTQI+ people, gender-based violence, gender mainstreaming and other gender-related issues. 
In her academic career, Professor Muravyeva is currently leading Development of Russian Law initiative and Post-Soviet Legal Choices network at the University of Helsinki, teaches such courses as Human Rights: Regional Chellenges, Rule of Law and Civil Society in Post-Soviet countries, Gender and Law and Gender Inequality in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and supervises 12 PhD students, majority of whom work for international organisations. 

Forskningsintressen

legal history, gender and law, gender-based violence, family violence, human rights of women, human rights of LGBTQI+, law and sexuality