Veronika Honkasalo
Member of the Finnish Parliament
for Helsinki
Assumed office
17 April 2019
Personal details
Born7 July 1975
Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland
Political partyLeft Alliance

Veronika Honkasalo (born 7 July 1975 in Lappeenranta) is a Finnish politician currently serving in the Parliament of Finland for the Left Alliance at the Helsinki constituency.[1]

Academic career

She earned a doctorate in social sciences in 2012 and was appointed an associate professor in 2018.[1] She is a researcher at the Youth Research Society[2] and has published several papers on youth related research.[2][3]

Political career

She has entered the city council of Helsinki in 2012 and was elected to the Finnish parliament in 2019.[4]

Political positions

She is opposed to what the Palestinians being forcibly expelled from their land for making way for Israeli settlements and introduced a motion proposing an import ban on products produced by the inhabitants of such settlements[5] in accordance with Article 49 of the Geneva Convention.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Veronika Honkasalo". www.eduskunta.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Veronika Honkasalo". ResearchGate.
  3. ↑ Honkasalo, Veronika (1 December 2013). ""Save the Girls!" Gender Equality and Multiculturalism in Finnish Youth Work Contexts". Girlhood Studies. 6 (2): 47–68. doi:10.3167/ghs.2013.060205. ISSN 1938-8322.
  4. ↑ "Veronika Honkasalo - For human rights, the climate and the welfare state". Veronika Honkasalo (in Finnish). Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "MP Veronika Honkasalo, Left Alliance, Finland: We must stop supporting illegal Israeli settlements". Vasemmistoliitto (in Finnish). 21 December 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "Legislative motion: Act on the prohibition to import goods originating from certain occupied territories" (PDF).


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