(13 August 2010)
The staff of IHP Italian Horse Protection Association gains an important personality in the animal rights’ field.

Adolfo Sansolini has covered several high-level roles in some of the most important European organizations. From today he’ll be part of our team, to give a crucial support to our project: he’ll be our Manager for the International Relations. He’ll help us to develop one of IHP’s goals: to attract the attention of the public opinion, of the media and of foreign associations to the cultural and legislative change we are, for the first time, trying to put in act in Italy.

Along its activity as the first Italian rescue centre for mistreated equines, IHP has started a complex activity, aimed toward education (with visits, contact with students, production of educational material) and toward the promotion of new laws and rules to ensure the equines will get the tutelage and respect they deserve. With Adolfo’s presence we are certain to grow up and thus accelerate the already started process.

This is his “tale”, dedicated to the tutelage to the animals’ rights:

Adolfo, previously LAV’s (Lega Anti Vivisezione- Italy’s most important animal rights association) director and national president, has worked along the years for Europe’s most important animalist associations.
In 1993 he helped with the opening of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Italian office, along with former European Commissary on. Carlo Ripa di Meana.
From 1998 to 2001 he served as Coordinator for Southern Europe of the European Coalition for Farm Animals (ECFA) promoted by Compassion In World Farming (CIWF).
From 2001 to 2004, as consultant for the Eurogroup for Animal Welfare, he coordinated projects addressed to the European Institutions in Greece, Italy and Slovenia.
In 2001 he received the Michael Kay Award from the The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) “in acknowledgement of his services for the animal protection in Europe”.
After moving in London, from 2004 to 2006, he directed as CEO the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) and coordinated the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE).
From 2006 to 2009 he has worked as Trade Policy Advisor for RSPCA, WSPA, CIWF and Eurogroup for Animals, representing them when dealing with organizations such WTO, EU, and various state governments. He organized, among the other things, the session “Can Farm Animal Welfare Standards be WTO-compatible?” at WTO’s Public Forum dell WTO (Genève, September 2008) and, along with the European Commission, the International Forum “Global Aspects of Farm Animal Welfare” (Bruxelles, April 2008) and the conference about the “Global Trade and Farm Animal Welfare’ (Bruxelles, January 2009).
Starting from 2010 he has exclusively operated for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), also serving as representative to the UN.
As journalist, Adolfo Sansolini has hosted the radio program “Un Habitat per Tutti i Viventi” (“An Habitat For All The Living Beings”) for the Vatican Radio from 1996 to 2003; since 1998 he collaborates with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); he has also collaborated with magazines, newspapers and web sites in several countries, writing in Italian, English and Spanish.