Aija Salo

Programmes & Policy Officer

Aija Salo works at ILGA-Europe as a Programmes & Policy Officer in the programmes service area. Her responsibilities include coordinating ILGA-Europe’s participation in several projects in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, monitoring and bringing forward LGBT issues in the context of the accession of new countries to the European Union and influencing the Council of Europe and the OSCE in human rights issues. She also has tasks related to ILGA-Europe’s Human Rights Violations Documentation Fund.

Background:

Aija is a long-term activist in the Finnish LGBT and feminist scene. To work for ILGA-Europe she has a leave of absence from the national LGBT organisation of Finland, Seta, where she is employed as the secretary general. She has a good knowledge of transgender issues based on cooperation with the Transgender Support Center of Seta. Earlier on she has worked inter alia as the secretary general for the League of Finnish Feminists (Naisasialiitto Unioni) and as an evaluator in the umbrella organisation of Finnish development cooperation NGOs KEPA. She has also participated in a development project in rural Sudan involving women’s empowerment and family planning issues.

Aija is a member of the national board of the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All in Finland. She has a strong commitment to combat multiple discrimination. She has been promoting the visibility of the indigenous people of Finland, the Sami, as well as cooperating with many disability organisations. Aija is especially interested in the wellbeing of LGBT youth and she has addressed this issue in the Finnish umbrella organisation for youth work, Allianssi, and in the Union of Student Unions in Finland.

Aija is well informed on LGBT perspectives to the employment market. She participated in Finland in the Equal research project Sexual minorities and trans people in working life. The educational background of Aija is in the University of Helsinki in sociology, political science, development studies and gender studies. She is currently working on a master’s thesis on sociology on the wellbeing of working-class lesbian and bisexual women at work.

Aija comes from Finland, from Helsinki, and is Finnish-speaking. She started working with ILGA-Europe on the 1st of August 2007.

ILGA-Europe gratefully acknowledges financial support from:

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