Fatim Winshett El Habib Diarra (born 1986) is a Finnish politician.

Biography

She was elected to the

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from the Helsinki constituency in the

2023 Finnish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 April 2023 to elect members of the Parliament of Finland. Following the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election, 2019 election, the Social Democratic Party of Finland, Social Democratic Party (SDP) ...

. She has been a city councilor in Helsinki since 2017, and was elected Chair of the

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in June 2021. She served as a deputy chairperson of her party

Green League The Green League, ( , Vihr; ; ; ; ) shortened to the Greens, (; ) is a green political party in Finland. Ideologically, the Green League is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum. It is a reformist party and it supports femi ...

from 2019 to 2021. Diarra chairs Naisasialiitto Unioni, the oldest feminist organization in Finland, and in June 2021 she was elected to the Board of Administration of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL). She is active also in the

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movement and for

body positivity Body positivity is a social movement that promotes a positive view of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities. Proponents focus on the appreciation of the functionality and health of the human body instea ...

. In the past, Fatim Diarra was active in the

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movement. Diarra was born to a Finnish mother and Malian father.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Diarra, Fatim Living people 1986 births Finnish feminists Green League politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (2023–2027) Finnish people of Malian descent