April 28, 1961 Laura Boldrini was born on 28 April 1961 in Macerata, in the Marche, daughter of an art teacher and a lawyer from Matelica. Grown in the province of Ancona, in the countryside jesine, along with a sister and three brothers, graduated from the University of Rome La Sapienza in law in 1985. After working for Rai (radio and television), in 1989 he began a professional career at the UN: has been producing radios and video of Fao, and since 1993 he worked as spokesman for Italy at the World Food Program, the world food programme. This commitment lasts until 1998: in that year, in fact, become a spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for refugees of the United Nations. The following year Laura Boldrini receives the official Medal of the National Commission for equality and equal opportunities for women and men. During his charge to the UNHCR, have the option of taking care of refugees in the Mediterranean and flows of migrants in the area, coming mission call in critical areas such as Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, the Sudan, Pakistan, Iran, Angola and the Caucasus. Thanks to its international commitment, you see grant in 2004 the title of Knight of the order of merit of the Italian Republic, and, two years later, the "Spouse" of the President. In 2009 the National Council Order of journalists assigns the "Journalism Award to the career press officer of the year". In 2010, after having been shown by the weekly "Famiglia Cristiana" Italian of the year "2009" for his efforts "in favour of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers" played with poise and humanity, dignity and firmness in condemning "the rejections of immigrants," Laura Boldrini releases for the publishing house Rizzoli book "stand back": in the book, recounts his career, telling the Italy of solidarity and of those who in front of humanitarian crises, threaten his own life to rescue the castaways. National award-winning the PNA "Renato Benedict Fabrizi" in 2011, writes on the site of "Republic" for the blog "peoples", and was awarded the "Cesena city of peace". After I started working for the Italian version of the Huffington Post, is a candidate for the Chamber of deputies in the elections of 2013 as a candidate of left ecology Freedom in districts 1 and 2 Marche, Sicily Sicily, strongly backed by party leader Nicola Vendola: Laura Boldrini is one of twenty-three people that the National Assembly chooses and candid without that they should undergo testing primaries. Elected in all three constituencies, choose the seat of Sicily 2:16 March, she was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies (backed up by 327 votes, out of a total of 618 voters), and becomes the third woman in the history of the Italian Republic to fill that role, after Nilde Iotti and Irene Pivetti. A few days later, he published his second book, "only the mountains never meet. Murayo and history of his fathers ", again for Rizzoli. The book tells the story of a little girl originally from Somalia seriously sick, which in 1994 is brought into our country by an Italian soldier: the little girl, now become girl, in 2012 acknowledges in an episode of "Chi l'ha visto?" her biological father, and the contact with the support of his Italian family and through the intermediary of the same Boldrini.
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