At the beginning of the school year, the Superior Council approves the update of the Action Protocol in situations of violence and discrimination for reasons of gender, gender identity and/or expression or sexual orientation.
New conquests!
We celebrate the approval in the Superior Council of the update of the Protocol of action in situations of violence and discrimination for reasons of gender, identity and/or expression of gender or sexual orientation.
This regulatory update is part of the UNR FEMINIST PLAN 2020-2023 (Res. CS 476/2020) that has the purpose of strengthening and providing better resources to the task of addressing, monitoring and preventing sexist violence at the university.
The Violence Protocol (Ordinance 734), was approved at the UNR in 2018, after a long period of collective work, framed by a context where other national universities and faculties of the UNR itself had approved similar tools for addressing violence. . By 2022, this new version of the Protocol implied a joint review and update work that incorporates the advances produced in the UNR with the creation of the Gender and Sexualities Area, as well as in the national university system with the institutionalization of the RUGE-CIN. . Also, add the expansion of the national and international regulatory framework, incorporating the postulates of the Micaela Law, the expansion of National Law 26.485 (which adds types and modalities of violence such as: street sexual harassment and political violence) or agreement 190 of the ILO, among others.
Among the most important elements of the update, the allocation of two positions to each of the academic units, for spaces for attention to situations of violence, guarantees the creation of 32 positions of heads of attention spaces at the UNR. Likewise, the update incorporates an annex with a specific Procedure for addressing situations involving minors, including normative principles expressed in the civil code and in the specific regulations that enshrine the rights of children and adolescents.
Another novelty is the incorporation of a legal adviser with a gender perspective at the UNR. The functions of the Gender and Sexualities Area in terms of addressing violence are established, which, among other powers, will be in charge of coordinating training and prevention policies. Another novelty of the ordinance is that it provides for protection and prevention measures, as well as repair and restoration.
As an institutional strengthening policy, the updated ordinance regulates the creation of care and support devices in health centers at the UNR; and the creation of a device for the attention and follow-up of men who commit violence.
The reform of the Protocol is the product of the joint work sustained in recent years, which was nourished by the diagnoses, debates and reflections developed in exchange and consultative tables where references of attention spaces, union representatives, authorities of Faculties and Schools participated, as well as institutional management areas. Spaces for exchange were also developed with specific advice provided by the teams of the Ombudsman for children and adolescents, as well as assistance from other universities.
With the update of Ordinance 734, our university joins the work of the Interuniversity Network for Gender Equality and against Violence (RUGE-CIN), which will begin to build a National Registry of gender violence (SIRGEV) in order to obtain accurate information on the approach to violence at the local and national level.
The updating of this Ordinance means a great advance in terms of approach and prevention, and is the reaffirmation of the UNR's commitment to work for gender equality and the eradication of sexist violence.
By Danisa Monte