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Conti was knwon in High School for her high grades. On December 16 , 1980 , she obtained her Lawyer degree from the University Of Buenos Aires . Having graduated as a lawyer, she continued studying, while working at the same time. From 1981 to 1985 , she worked at her own lawyer firm, and in 1982 , she joined the social help team for prisoners in Ravignaggi-Garriga, and the judicial help department of the center for legal and social studies in Argentina. In 1983 , she became chairman for a company named Corsetti S.A., a job from which she stepped down in 1985. She was also a member of the contradictory cases legal help team from 1982 to 1985, and a public helper of problematic youth from 1984 to 1985. On September 10 , 1985, Conti formed part of an advisory council on human rights in Argentina. 1985 was a very productive year for Conti, who graduated with a degree in Psychology that year. She tried to become secretary of first and second instance criminal forums in 1985 and on June of 1989 , losing narrowly both times at a voting. In 1986 , she became national secretary of first instance, on the correctional and criminal jury for first instance. Conti held that job until January 31 , 1989 . She had become a founding member of the citizen's correctional justice participation system organization's commission, and from February 1 , 1989, she was secretary of the national appeals camera, a job which she held until April 1 , 1991 . Diana Conti became the justice minister's cabinet helper on that day. Conti held various cameral positions in Buenos Aires until 1994 , when she left for Santa Fe , where she worked as doctor Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni 's legal helper for one month. She got a job on March 16 of that year as Buenos Aires University's penal rights and criminology department's secretary, so traveling between Buenos Aires and Santa Fe daily became a burden to Conti, who decided to quit her job in Santa Fe after only one month working there. Conti became Argentina's human rights subsecretary on December 12 , 1997 , and she left her job at the Buenos Aires University to concentrate on her new job. On December 26 , 2001 , she stepped down from that position, aiming to become a subsecretary for institutional reform and national strenghtening of democracy in Argentina, a job that she obtained on January 23 , 2002 . She had to step down from her practically new position on July 2 , when she was elected as a national senator. She was a senator from July 3 , 2002 until December 10 , 2005 . As senator, she was known for championing human rights causes. A Divorced woman, Conti has participated in several seminars and law clinics in Argentina. During April of 2006 , Conti returned to the public light when she began a campain in favour of laws for harsher punishment to those found guilty of Sexual Harrassment at work, regardless of sexual gender. EXTERNAL LINKS senado.gov.ar |
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