Lesia Vasylenko
Ukrainian politician (1987–)
Lesia Volodymyrivna Vasylenko (Ukrainian: Леся Володимирівна Василенко; born March 31, 1987) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada. Vasylenko is a member of the Ukrainian permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union's Bureau of Women Parliamentarians. She is the founder of Legal Hundred, a human rights non-governmental organization that provides assistance to servicemen and veterans.
Early life and education
Vasylenko was born in Kyiv to Volodymyr Vasylenko, a human rights activist. She completed a master's degree in international law at the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and an LL.M. at University College London.
Career
Vasylenko worked as a corporate lawyer. At the beginning of the Euromaidan revolution in 2013, she protested frequently at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti. After visiting a hospital during the war in Donbas in June 2014, Vasylenko learned that wounded soldiers were unaware of their rights to compensation. Many of the soldiers she spoke with struggled to pay for their medical treatments. In January 2015, she founded Legal Hundred, a human rights non-governmental organization that provides assistance to servicemen and veterans.
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