Biography
Manconi graduated in Political Sciences at the University of Milan and started teaching Sociology in the University of Palermo and the IULM University of Milan.
Political career
In 1994,Manconi was elected,as an independent,senator on the list of the Greens,and again elected in the following elections. He took part in the work of numerous commissions on the issues that have always characterized his militancy and his research activities:justice and guarantee,individual freedoms and social guarantees,and the autonomy of the person.
In 2005,Manconi joined the Democrats of the Left for which he was head of the national civil rights department and a member of the national leadership. He was undersecretary of state for Justice in the Prodi II Cabinet from 2006 to 2008.
In 2013,Manconi was elected senator in the list of the Democratic Party and was appointed president of the Human rights Commission of the Senate.
A former exponent of the No on the occasion of the constitutional referendum of 4 December 2016,on 23 October 2017 Manconi did not participate in the votes of confidence on Rosatellum ,the new electoral law. In October and December 2017 he launched the initiative of a hunger strike for the approval of the jus soli law,which did not reach the quorum in the Senate.
On 2 February 2018,Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni appointed Manconi as coordinator of the Office for the Promotion of Equal Treatment and the Removal of Discrimination established within the Department for Equal Opportunities.
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