and he lectured about human rights in several European, Central Asia and Middle East countries. Between December 2003 and July 2006 he directed the project Human Rights Training and Support in Kazakhstan for Freedom House. Between 2002-2003 he was a member of the working group for the education to human rights for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. In 2003, he was an expert for per il progetto della International Helsinki Federation for human rights, financed by the European Commission, The juridical protection of human rights in the Russian Federation, performing missions in Sakhalin and in the Russian far east region. He lectured about human rights in Italy, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Lebanon, collaborating with different universities, non-governmental organizations, and other institutional bodies; and he was a consultant at the European Parliament, so as for the Italian Parliament and Senate. He founded and directed the magazines Confronto con l’Est (1982-1988), La Nuova Frontiera – International Human Rights and Security Review (1995-2003) and La Scrittura (1996-2002). He is a member of the Board of Directors of Hands Off Cain, whose mission is the ban of the death penalty at worldwide level. In September 2015 he was appointed by the French non-governmental organization Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort as the coordinator of the Worldwide Congress against the Death Penalty (Oslo, 21–23 June 2016). From October 2017 he is the President of the Italian Federation for Human Rights (www.fidu.it), for which he has conducted monitoring and advocacy mission in several countries. In 2021 he coordinated the project "Voices of Kazakhstan", supporting freedom of association and expression in that country (https://rus.azattyq.org/a/31017613.html). On 12 March 2016, he was a lecturer at the TEDx conference of Arezzo on the issue of the death penalty. In addition to his activities in defence of the human rights, he is founder and owner of the eponym editorial company, whose activities are in the field of book editing, cultural magazines publishing, local information and event promotion. Note 1957 births Italian political scientists Living people Anti–death penalty activists Italian human rights activists Writers from Naples University of Genoa alumni