Human rights advocate. She primarily focuses on defending victims of political persecution worldwide. Her work, which ranges from advocacy to research, is centered on improving justice and strengthening international tools for the protection of freedoms and human rights. She has been working in favour of the universal abolition of the death penalty since 2007 through the organization of events and the implementation of international projects promoted by the Italian NGO Hands off Cain. She has worked with the French NGO Ensemble contre la Peine de Mort and the World Coalition against the Death Penalty as a member of the team in charge of the organisation of the VI World Congress against the Death Penalty, held in Oslo in June 2016 and co-sponsored by the governments of Norway, Australia and France. She joined the Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) in 2016 where she serves as the Vice President. Within the framework of FIDU’s advocacy programmes, she has conducted fact-finding missions in several countries, in particular in Africa and Eastern Europe. At FIDU she coordinates human rights campaigns and projects (incl. those funded by the European Commission) and carries out, together with international partners, monitoring and reporting activities with a focus on Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Turkey, China and Iran. In 2023, she participated in an independent election observation mission in Diyarbakir, Turkey, during the presidential elections. She has conducted many fact-finding missions and she has extensive experience in advocacy on protection of civil liberties and political rights, on disinformation and propaganda, as well as on corporate accountability for human rights. She also authored numerous articles that have appeared in national and international newspapers and magazines. She is the author of the podcast Made in Slavery on the Chinese government’s violent repression of Uyghur people. She is a member of the Steering Committee of CURE, the international initiative of leading civil society organisations from across the European continent aimed at strengthen the Council of Europe and its work in the field of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
E-mail: e.mongelli@fidu.it