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Gino Costa
Gino Francisco Costa Santolalla (born 27 January 1956) is a Peruvian politician who is an Independent Congressman caucusing with the Purple Party, representing the constituency of Lima.
He previously served as Interior Minister in the Cabinet of Peru from 2002 to 2003 a United Nations official, president of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) and deputy defender for human rights and people with disabilities of the Ombudsman's Office.
He studied law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, completed a master's degree in development studies at the University of East Anglia in 1983, and then completed his MPhil and PhD (1987) in international relations at Queens' College, Cambridge.
He worked at the United Nations, first at the Center for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland (1988–1989) and then at peacekeeping missions in Central America.
He was part of the Electoral Verification Mission in Nicaragua (ONUVEN, 1990), the International Support and Verification Commission in Honduras (CIAV / ONU, 1990) and the Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL, 1990–1994).
In El Salvador, he was an advisor to three successive Chiefs of Mission responsible for implementing the Peace Accords between the FMLN guerrillas and the Alfredo Cristiani government that ended a decade of civil war. He had a leading role in the creation of the new police force.
Back in Peru, he collaborated with Jorge Santistevan de Noriega in the establishment of the Ombudsman's Office in 1996, serving as Executive Secretary of the Ad-hoc Commission of Pardons for terrorism cases between 1996 and 1999 and as Deputy Defender for Human Rights and People with Disabilities between 1997 and 2000.
After the fall of the government of Alberto Fujimori and during the Transitional government of Valentín Paniagua (2001) he was president of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE).
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Gino Costa
Gino Francisco Costa Santolalla (born 27 January 1956) is a Peruvian politician who is an Independent Congressman caucusing with the Purple Party, representing the constituency of Lima.
He previously served as Interior Minister in the Cabinet of Peru from 2002 to 2003 a United Nations official, president of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) and deputy defender for human rights and people with disabilities of the Ombudsman's Office.
He studied law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, completed a master's degree in development studies at the University of East Anglia in 1983, and then completed his MPhil and PhD (1987) in international relations at Queens' College, Cambridge.
He worked at the United Nations, first at the Center for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland (1988–1989) and then at peacekeeping missions in Central America.
He was part of the Electoral Verification Mission in Nicaragua (ONUVEN, 1990), the International Support and Verification Commission in Honduras (CIAV / ONU, 1990) and the Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL, 1990–1994).
In El Salvador, he was an advisor to three successive Chiefs of Mission responsible for implementing the Peace Accords between the FMLN guerrillas and the Alfredo Cristiani government that ended a decade of civil war. He had a leading role in the creation of the new police force.
Back in Peru, he collaborated with Jorge Santistevan de Noriega in the establishment of the Ombudsman's Office in 1996, serving as Executive Secretary of the Ad-hoc Commission of Pardons for terrorism cases between 1996 and 1999 and as Deputy Defender for Human Rights and People with Disabilities between 1997 and 2000.
After the fall of the government of Alberto Fujimori and during the Transitional government of Valentín Paniagua (2001) he was president of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE).