Dr. Insolera has worked and collaborated for numerous international and national organizations mostly related to protecting the rights of deaf people.
International politics
In 2002, Insolera collaborated as an intern at one of the four major office sites of the United Nations, the United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland. In 2006, Insolera participated in the historical UN CRPDAd Hoc Committee meeting in New York, USA. In 2009, he was appointed Board Member of the European Union of the Deaf and since 2013 has been EUD vice-president. While working for the EUD, he has actively participated in numerous European Institutions, such as European Parliament Committee Sessions, European Commission Conference on the European Day of Persons with Disabilities and also in the Council of Europe. He was also involved in the implementation and monitoring processes of the UN CRPD both in Italy and at a European level. As an expert, one of his main responsibilities was assuring that every State's regular submission of reports were implementing the rights accordingly. From 2013, he was appointed Chair of the Accessibility Working Group and has worked also as a Member of the Expert Group on Human rights for the World Federation of the Deaf until 2015. In May 2017 he has been elected by the EDF as the EDF Executive committee.
Humberto Insolera receives an award of appreciation by the CIO Dr. Yousif Asfour and Maha Zouwayhed at the American University of Beirut during the ABLE Summit on April, 2019 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Activism
Insolera was the first student in Italy to receive the stenotype service from the University of Padua after a collision with one of the university's representatives whom was denying to provide him access to education. Since then, numerous Italian students have had access to this service as well. Successively, he worked at Italian Youth Committee Member and coordinated the nation's first Italian Deaf Academic Conference for the deaf, deaf blind and hard of hearing delegates in 2011. It was later followed with a second one in 2016 under his guidance. Insolera stars in his brother Emilio Insolera's film Sign Gene, the first superhero film about deaf mutants who have superhuman powers through the use of sign language. Insolera plays as Jux Clerc, the brother and main villain of the leading character Tom Clerc’s. The film was released in 2017.
