The role of womens police stations in widening access to justice and eliminating gender violence

SOZZO, MAXIMO; PUYOL, MARIA VICTORIA; CARRIGTON, KERRY; GHIBERTO, LUCIANA

Nueva York

Otro; United Nations 63rd Commission on the Status of Women; 2019

United Nations

This address is relevant to the priority theme of the 63rd meeting of the UN CSW of providing accessto sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women in order toeliminate violence against women and girls. First, outline the case for sex segregated policing, thenbriefly describe the emergence of women?s police stations, next we outline the results of our study onthe role of women?s police stations in Argentina in responding to and preventing gender violence.Finally, we presentsome policy and practice lessonsfor UN Women to consider in relation to achievingthe sustainable development goal of eliminating violence against women. The study is funded by theAustralian Research Council and includes a multi-country team of researchers from Australia andArgentina whose contributions we gratefully acknowledge.