Antonio Stango

Background

About Antonio Stango

A political scientist, he is currently the President of the Italian Federation for Human Rights and of the European Centre of Penitentiary Studies contract professor of International Organisations and Human Rights at Rome Link Campus University and senior researcher for the Med-Or Foundation. He has been leading several NGOs and international projects, monitoring conflict and crisis areas, consulting for the European Parliament and for the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Senate, organizing dozens of international conferences, and representing NGOs at the UN Human Rights Council. On behalf of the International Helsinki Federation he took part in missions in Romania, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan; on behalf of Hands Off Cain in four States in Central Asia and four in Western and Southern Africa; with various NGOs in four missions in Cuba and two in Iraqi Kurdistan; for the European Commission in Armenia, Russia, and Tajikistan. In 2003 he organized a Summer School on human rights education in Lebanon for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network; from December 2003 to August 2006 has been Project Director of the Freedom House Human Rights Training and Support Program in Kazakhstan. With ECPM – Ensemble contre la peine de mort he has been based in Paris from September 2015 to September 2016 as the Coordinator of the VI World Congress Against the Death Penalty, which took place in Oslo in June 2016. Among else, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Helsinki Federation (1988-1992), treasurer of No Peace Without Justice (1995-1996), member of the Board of Certi Diritti (2014-2015) and President of LIDU (from October 30, 2016 to January 19, 2018). A publisher and editor-in-chief of specialized journals, he authorized a number of essays and articles on human rights and international relations. In 2018, he has been a shortlisted candidate for the mandate of United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of FOREF (Forum Religionsfreiheit) and has been lecturing in Universities and post-graduated courses in Italy (SIOI, Roma Tre, Sapienza, LUMSA), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.