Svitlana Petrivna Zalishchuk is a politician, public leader, journalist, human rights campaigner and former member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
13 Facts About Svitlana Zalishchuk
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Svitlana Zalishchuk was placed on 18th position on the party list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Zalishchuk was elected to the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada during the 2014 parliamentary election.
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Svitlana Zalishchuk's focus of parliamentary activity includes strategic lobbying and organizing national and global campaigns on democratization, security, anticorruption, human rights, antidiscrimination, particularly gender and LGBT equality.
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Svitlana Zalishchuk is the co-author of more than 30 draft laws on these issues.
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Svitlana Zalishchuk is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Chair of the Sub-Committee on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration.
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Svitlana Zalishchuk is a Member of the Parliamentary Caucus 'Equal Opportunities' devoted to gender issues.
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Svitlana Zalishchuk is a co-founder and member of the Inter-faction Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists" and 'Anticorruption Platform' and the founder of the Open Parliament platform in Ukraine as a part of the Open Government Partnership.
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In 2015 Svitlana Zalishchuk was one of the first two MPs in Ukraine who publicly joined LGBT pride, along with Serhiy Leshchenko.
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Svitlana Zalishchuk has been actively involved in representing Ukraine on different international platforms, including UN, CoE, EU Parliament, etc.
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On 28 February 2019 Svitlana Zalishchuk voluntarily left the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction.
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On 7 June 2019 Svitlana Zalishchuk stated she wanted to take part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent candidate in a constituency.
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On July 21,2018, Svitlana Zalishchuk married the British lawyer Wayne Jordash.
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Svitlana Zalishchuk has a significant number of followers on her Facebook and Twitter accounts.