Justice as a feminist project

In the public presentation of the update of the Protocol against sexist violence, Ileana Arduino, Catalina Trebisacce and Natacha Guala participated to talk about feminist justice.

The activity proposed for the university community was carried out at the Faculty of Law. At the beginning, the secretary of the Gender and Sexualities Area, Florencia Rovetto, presented the update of the University's Protocol against sexist violence (Ord. 754/20). In turn, she mentioned that this policy is not an isolated event but rather forms part of the transformations within the national universities, including the institutionalization of the Interuniversity Network for Gender Equality and against violence (RUGE), the implementation of the Micaela Law, the various modifications of regulations and the gender secretariats in the units academic.

"The horizon remains the same, the Feminist University we want," emphasized Rovetto, after reviewing the initiatives that have been implemented since the beginning of Franco Bartolacci's administration in 2019. In this sense, he highlighted the new lines of action of the Protocol, for example, virtuality as a scenario of situations of violence, a procedure for situations involving minors in pre-university schools, the incorporation of the gender perspective in the Legal Department of the university, among others.

From left to right. Natacha Guala, Catalina Trebisacce, Ileana Arduino, Hernán Botta, Marcela Mancini and Florencia Rovetto.

In the second part, Marcela Mancini, secretary of Gender and Human Rights of the Faculty of Law-UNR, commented on the activities and training work that the secretariat organizes. In her role as moderator of the discussion "Justice as a feminist project," she shared that the objective is to collectively reflect on the place of social organizations and support for victims of sexist violence, access to justice from a comprehensive perspective, the keys to reparation , antipunitivismo and the proposal of the feminist judicial reform.

The guests were Ileana Arduino, Lawyer with a focus on criminal law (UBA). Specialist in gender, public policies and justice from CLACSO. Coordinator of the Feminisms and Criminal Justice Group of INECIP; Catalina Trebisacce, Doctor in Anthropological Sciences, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Gender Studies and the Romualdo Ardissone Institute of Geography, both belonging to the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires; Natacha Guala, Lawyer, Teacher Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Undersecretary of Welfare and Gender in the Police, Ministry of Security of Santa Fe.

The conversation is available on the UNR YouTube channel.

At the closing of the meeting, the prosecutor Carla Cerleani commented on the current situation of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPA) of the Province of Santa Fe. In 2023 the highest authorities will be renewed and demand gender parity, currently managerial positions- attorney general and regional prosecutors - are occupied by men. The prosecutor highlights the urgent need to accompany the claim of the women who make up the MPA, as the basis of the contests carried out with a gender perspective, compliance with the gender parity law and the provincial law on transvestite-trans labor quota.

By Danisa Monte