Dariana Gryaznova

Eurasia Legal Advisor, Equality Now

Dariana Gryaznova is Eurasia Legal Advisor at Equality Now. Her main role is contributing to Equality Now’s reports and submissions to regional and international mechanisms, strategic litigation and developing strategies with local partners on violence against women and girls.

Dariana is a Russian-qualified lawyer who has been working in the human rights sector since 2013. She has been litigating human rights cases domestically and before the ECtHR and UN treaty bodies, focusing on access to information, freedom of expression, women’s rights and non-discrimination and climate change.

In 2019, she was awarded the Chevening Scholarship — the UK government’s international awards program, which has been developing future leaders since 1983.

Born in Siberia, Russia, Dariana is currently based in the EU. She is fluent in Russian and English and is learning Spanish. She holds an LLB in law from Saint Petersburg State University and an LLM (Distinction) in Human Rights Law from Queen Mary University of London.