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Marino Busdachin (* 1956 in Umag ) is an Italian human rights activist and General Secretary of the Organization of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples (UNPO) .

Life

Busdachin was born in the Free Territory of Trieste, which was already divided between Italy and Croatia, and was naturalized in Italy with his family in the early 1960s. In the 1970s he studied law in Trieste; From 1974 he was a member of the Italian radical-liberal Partito Radicale , where he was also elected to the board at an early stage. From 1978 to 1982 he was a representative of the party in the Trieste local parliament. As a human rights activist, he advocated conscientious objection , divorce, and abortion in the 1980s .

In the late 1980s he was briefly imprisoned for political activity in Bulgaria (1982) and the Soviet Union (1989). During the restructuring of his party into a transnational movement (renamed in 1989 to Transnational Radical Party ), between 1989 and 1993 he coordinated the establishment of the TRP in the Soviet Union and in Yugoslavia. From 1993 to 1998 he was involved in a campaign at the United Nations for the abolition of the death penalty. At the same time he contributed to the recognition of the former political party as an NGO by the UN.

From 1995 to 2000 he worked as an activist for the establishment of tribunals against war crimes and headed the US division of No Peace Without Justice . From 2003 to 2005 he held the office of Executive Director at the UNPO and became its Secretary General in 2005.

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• Speaker Biography: Marino Busdachin - europarl.europa.eu (PDF file)