Pashko was the Chair of the Union of Ukrainian Women (1991), and served as president of the Viacheslav Chornovil International Charitable Foundation (1999).

[4] Athena Pashko was born on 10 October 1931 in the village of Bystrytsia, Drohobych district, Lwów Voivodeship, an administrative unit of interwar Poland.

[5] Since the mid-1960s, she was persecuted and banned from publishing her works for defending repressed Ukrainian cultural figures.

In 1970, she signed an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic with a demand to overturn the sentence of Veronica Morozova, for which she was fired.

After the tragic death of her husband, Viacheslav Chornovil, on 25 March 1999 in a car accident, Pashko continued her political mission, and was even called the guardian of the People's Movement of Ukraine.