Aurica Bojescu

Aurica Bojescu (Ауріка Василівна Божеску) is a Ukrainian lawyer, minority rights activist and politician of Romanian ethnicity. She is a representative of the Romanian community in Ukraine, being an advocate for minority rights for the ethnic minorities of the country. Bojescu also contributed to the drafting of the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine and was a member of the Chernivtsi Oblast Council for many years.

Biography
Aurica Bojescu is an ethnic Romanian from Chernivtsi (Cernăuți), Ukraine. She is a lawyer, and was one of the specialists that participated in the redaction of the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine. From 1998 to 2014, she was a member of the Chernivtsi Oblast Council, serving affiliated to the Party of Regions from 2006 to 2014. She also worked as an assistant for politician Eduard Matviychuk. In 2005, Bojescu published Situația minorităților românești din Ucraina ("Situation of the Romanian Minorities of Ukraine"), a study on the Romanians in Ukraine.

Bojescu has often acted as a representative for the Romanian minority in the region of Northern Bukovina, and has actively protested against the deficient situation regarding the minority rights of the Ukrainian Romanians (including the Ukrainian self-declared Moldovans), particularly in Romanian media. Bojescu is the president of the Bukovinian Independent Center for Current Studies. This organization is part of the larger Romanian Community of Ukraine Interregional Union, of which she is the responsible secretary. The Romanian Community of Ukraine Interregional Union is dedicated to supporting legislation in Ukraine offering proper minority rights to national ethnic minorities.

In 2019, Bojescu was one of the several participants in a meeting between the Hungarian politician Zsolt Németh and Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Several matters were discussed during the meeting, including the situation of the minority languages of Ukraine. She also met in 2022 with representatives of the Hungarian minority of Ukraine in the headquarters of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association (KMKSZ).