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Veronika Honkasalo

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Veronika Honkasalo
Honkasalo in 2018
Member of the Finnish Parliament
for Helsinki
Incumbent
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

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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

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

Political positions

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She is opposed to Palestinians being forcibly expelled from their land to make 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

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  1. ^ a b "Veronika Honkasalo". www.eduskunta.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b "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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