Veronika Honkasalo

Veronika Honkasalo
Honkasalo in 2018
Member of the Finnish Parliament for Helsinki
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 April 2019
Personal details
Born	7 July 1975 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland
Political party	Left 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 entered the city council of Helsinki in 2012 and was elected to the Finnish parliament in 2019. ^[4]

Political positions

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

1. "Veronika Honkasalo". www.eduskunta.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 13 July 2022.
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). Archived from the original on 15 May 2022.