Paola
Degani

PAOLA DEGANI University of Padova, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (SPGI) Via del Santo 2835100 Padova Tel +39 049 8274086 https://www.spgi.unipd.it/ Human Rights Centre, Via Martiri della Libertà, 2 35137 Padova Tel +39 049 8271810 Fax +39 049 8271816 https://elearning.unipd.it/spgi/blocks/course_managers/manager.php?id=3885&b=3649 https://www.research.unipd.it/simple-search?query=paola+degani&needescape=1 https://unipd.academia.edu/paoladegani/Papers www.linkedin.com/in/paola-degani-563a72106 Education : Degree in Political Science, Univ.of Padua (1988), PHD Post Graduate Institution and Techniques of Human Rights Implementation, Padua University (3 y. postgraduate course-1996). Scientific areas of interest, researches and publications • Women's Rights and Equal opportunities • Women's Rights and International Politics; • International system of promotion and protection of women’s rights • Violence against women as violation of human rights • Gender Security • Gender dimension of the intercultural dialogue • Trafficking on human beings especially for the purpose of sexual exploitation • Policies on prostitution and trafficking related issues • Mixed flows: refugee as trafficked persons and trafficked persons as asylum claims or refugee •Children’s rights • New forms of traffiicking Academic activities at University of Padua, Faculty of Political Sciences: - Lecturer in Comparative Politics and in Political sociology - Research contract holder on International criminal law, human rights and the contribution of non-governmental actors - Contract Professor of Human Rights and Vulnerable Groups MA on Institution and Politics of the Human Rights and of the Peace - Professor on Gender Approach to the Internationalisation of Human Rights in the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation - Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Vulnerable Groups and of Human Rights and Women Condition, Master’s Degree Course on Institutions and Policies of Human Rights and Peace - Since 2010, Assistant Professor of Public Policies and Human Rights at Degree Course in Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, and at Degree on Institution and Politics of the Human Rights and of the Peace, - Since 2013, Assistant aggregate of Women’s Human rights in the Master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance, International Research, training activities and other roles: - 2004 expert on trafficking in human beings in the Women East Smuggling Trafficking, EU Interreg III B CADSES Activity of Information, training, awareness raising for the public Urban Safety Operators, Administrators and Management staff- Police forces- Traffic police- Social workers. - 2006: Project coordinator of Daphne II Project: Human Rights and Trafficking in Women and Young People. An educational toolkit for teachers and students (to prevent and combat violence against children, young people and women and to protect victims and groups at risk - 2007: Participation at the European Research Project on Intercultural Dialogue for the Development of a New (Plural, Democratic) Citizenship, Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence of the University of Padua, with University of Lodz, European Institute, Poland – Panteion University, Athens and ECSA-Greece University of Malta, Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence ECSA-Japan and ECSA-Mexico - 2007: Expert on trafficking in person in EU Agis Project on protection of victims of trafficking - 2008/2009 /2010 Participation to the project Acting for stronger private-public partnerships in the field of identification and support of child victims and at risk of trafficking in Europe, AGIRE: Save the Children, Austria, Greece, Italy and Romania. - 2011: Human rights expert for the Council of Europe(Special Representative of the Secretary General for Roma) in training course for lawyers defending Roma, (report on The presence of Roma people in Italy) - 2013: Member of the Scientific and Technical Committee, Trainer and Scientific responsible of the final conference of the EU Project STOP FOR BEG, AgainST emerging fOrms of trafficking in Italy: exPloited immigrants in the international phenomenon of FORced BEGgging - 2014-2015: Scientific Coordinator of the EU Project TEMVI Trafficked and Exploited Minors between Vulnerability and Illegality Forced criminal activities as a new form of exploitation in human trafficking: knowledge and human rights based practices through pilot research and multi-agency training and prototype-procedures. 2016/2017, participation to the N.A.Ve Project, Network against traffickingVeneto, funding by the Equal Opportunities Department of the Presidency of Government, Municipality of Venezia - Servizio Protezione e Inclusione sociale, Unità Operativa Complessa Protezione umanitaria e sociale del Comune di Venezia, Regioni in partnership with: Veneto Region, Emilia Romagna Region, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region; the Municipalities of: Padova, Verona, Treviso, Vicenza, Rovigo, Belluno, Casier (TV); institutional subjects in the area involved: Comando Legione Carabinieri Veneto, Comando Provinciale Carabinieri of Venezia, Guardia di Finanza of Venezia, Commissione territoriale per ilriconoscimento della protezione internazionale of Verona, Direzione Interregionale del Lavoro of Venezia, Direzione Territoriale del Lavoro of Belluno, Direzione Territoriale del Lavoro of Padova, Direzione Territoriale del Lavoro of Rovigo, Direzione Territoriale del Lavoro of Treviso, Direzione Territoriale del Lavoro of Venezia, Direzione Territoriale del Lavoro of Verona; Istituto Penale per minorenni of Treviso, Prefettura of Venezia, Procura of Venezia; Questura of Belluno, Questura of Treviso, Questura of Venezia, Questura of Padova, Questura of Verona, Servizio Sociale per Minorenni USSM Veneto, Irecoop Veneto, Ente Bilaterale Turismo Venezia, Legacoop. Veneto, Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori, Ordine Assistenti Sociali Veneto, University of Padova, University ofVerona; union trades: CGIL Veneto, CGIL Venezia, CGIL Rovigo, CGIL Vicenza, CGIL Verona, CGIL Padova, UIL Veneto; other institutions of the health area: AULSS 16 SPISAL Padova, AULSS 13 Mirano (VE), AULSS 20 Verona, AULSS 21 Legnago (VR), AULSS 22 Bussolengo (VR); other subjects:: Cooperativa Sociale Dedalus (Napoli), Cooperativa Lotta contro l’Emarginazione (Milano), La strada Der Weg (Bolzano), Save the Children Italia; operative organizations involved: Equality Cooperativa sociale onlus, Comunita’ dei Giovani Cooperativa sociale onlus, Volonta’ di Sapere Cooperativa sociale onlus, Azalea Cooperativa sociale, Francescane con i Poveri onlus, Associazione Welcome onlus, Associazione La tenda onlus, Gruppo R società cooperativa sociale, Domus Nostra 2016/2018, participation to the Project: “Nessuno si senta escluso”, Clinic laboratory to implement the Istanbul Convention di Istanbul, Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies, University of Padua, in partnership with: Italian group of representatives to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Department of Law, University of Ferrara, Venice Foundation for the research on peace 2015-2017, research activity on issues related to male violence against women as member of the Expert group on data on gender violence of the Equal Opportunities Department of the Presidency of Government, as foreseen by the Piano d'azione straordinario contro la violenza sessuale e di genere 2015/2017. 2017 (2019), participation to the N.A.Ve Project, Network against trafficking Veneto, funding by the Equal Opportunities Department of the Presidency of Government, National anti-trafficking Plan, project coordinated by the Municipality of Venice, - Servizio Protezione e Inclusione sociale 2016/2018 University of Padua Research, Scientific Coordinator, Violence against women and human rights: the Italian public policies in the framework of international law with a particular focus on Istanbul Convention and the Italian Extraordinary Plan of Action Piano against sexual and genderbased violence 2015- 2017, code number: CPDR158035/15, Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies of the University of Padua; from 01-05-2016 to 30 april 2018 2017- 2018, Scientific coordinator of the Veneto Reional Project “L’otto per tutte” founded by Veneto Region in collaboration with the Municipality of Padua, Centro Veneto Progetti Donna – Anti Violence Centre of Padua, Municipality of Este, .Azioni Positive and Arising Africans associations and the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua, the Minicipality of (TV), ITT E. Barsanti di Castelfranco Veneto (TV), Este (PD) and Conselv (PD), ENAIP Veneto Impresa Sociale, the Journalist Rank of Veneto, Belluno DONNA and Cooperativa Sociale ISIDE associations; from 1-01-2018 to 31-12-2018 2018-2020, Scientific coordinator of the national Project “Seconde a Nessuno”, Department of Equal Opportunity of the Presidency of the Council of Ministry, Call to found project to prevent and combat male violence gender based, Municipality of Padua, Centro Veneto Progetti Donna – Anti Violence Centre of Padua, Municipality of Este, Rel.Azioni Positive and Arising Africans associations and the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua, from 7-01-2019 to June 2020. 2018 - 2019 – Scientific coordinator of the national Project “Genere, Donne Diritti Umani e Processi di Pace” and Director of the Training course for trainers to support the national implementation of the Third Italy Plan of Action on “Women, Peace and Security” (2016-2019) promoted by the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua and by the Centro Studi Difesa Civile, with the support of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation 2019 – Scientific coordinator and Project manager of the CARIPARO Project Call Visiting 2018: Migrant Women at the Margin: Addressing Vulnerabilities in Intersectionality between Violence and Exploitation / MWM, founded by Fondazione Cariparo, Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies and Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua and University of Wroclaw, Institute of International Studies, Polish; from1-01-2019 to 31-12-2019 2020 – Scientific coordinator of the research team of the University of Padova – Human Rights Centre and the Municipality of Venice, involved in writing the National Free Tool Anti -Trafficking Number Report for the Department of Equal Opportunity of the Presidency of the Council of Ministry 2020 – 2022, Participation to the EU Commission Project N.E.x.T. TO YOU, Network for the Empowerment, the social and labour inclusion of Trafficked children and young adults, Coordinated by Veneto Region, Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, Transnational actions on asylum, migration and integration, AMIF-2019-AG-CALL, Topic 5. Other activites 2010, Member of the Technical Round table of the Inter-ministerial Commission to support victims of trafficking, violence and serious exploitation, Equal Opportunities Ministry (now Department of Equal Opportunities of Italian Presidency of Council of Ministers (DPO) 2013/2017, Member of the Equal Opportunity Commission of the University of Padua 2014/ 2016, Member of the Direction of the Anti-Violence Centre in Padua (Centro Veneto Progetti Donna) 2015/2017, Member of the Expert Group on data on Violence against women of the Department of Equal Opportunities of Italian Presidency of Council of Ministers (DPO) 2014 /2019, Member of the Veneto Region Commission on Violence against women based on Regional Law 2015 / 2019 Experts for W20 at the G20 2015/2019, Representative of the University of Padua Rector for Human Rights at the Veneto Region 2019, Italian National Expert for the Council of Europe of Grevio (Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence) 2016/2021, Member of ASGI Association of Legal Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration, Turin Italy 2017/ 2021, Member of AIS (Italian Association of Sociology) section Gender Studies 2017/2021, Member of the Standing Group Gender and Politics of SISP Italian Society of Political Science Lecturer / Senior Lecturer University of Padua Padua, Italy Society Memberships Present Member AIS Italian Association of Sociology - Section on Legal Sociology and Gender Present Member ASGI Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI) is a membership-based association focusing on all legal aspects of immigration. As a pool of lawyers, academics, consultants and civil society representatives, ASGI’s expertise relates to various areas of immigration and migrants’ rights, including but not limited to antidiscrimination and xenophobia, children’s and unaccompanied minors’ rights, asylum and refugee seekers, statelessness and citizenship. Present Member SISP section Gender and Politicd Italian Society of Political Science - Section on Gender and Politics Present Member WAVE Women Against Violence Europe WAVE is a legal entity since 2014 and a formal network NGO composed of European women’s NGOs working in the field of combating violence against women and children. The WAVE Network aims to promote and strengthen the human rights of women and children in general and to prevent violence against women and children in particular. It aims at establishing gender equality by eliminating all forms of violence against women. WAVE is the only European network focusing solely on the elimination of violence against women and children. 2015 - 2018 Member of Board Centro Veneto Progetti Donna - Anti Violence Centre in Padova (Italy)