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Caterina Bolognese
Council of Europe
Head, Gender Equality Division, Directorate of Equal Rights and Dignity
Biography
With a background in law, including feminist legal theory, Caterina Bolognese has worked in comparative criminal law research at the Max-Planck-Institut in Freiburg (Germany). She joined the Council of Europe in 1997, working on constitutional and criminal law reforms, monitoring trafficking for sexual exploitation, then for many years with the Organisation’s anti-torture monitoring team (CPT). In the CPT, she focused on various topics, including push-backs in the high sea, women in prison and gender mainstreaming in the CPT’s work. From 2011 to 2015, she directed the Office in Georgia. Since 2018, Caterina manages the gender equality cooperation and policies team, supporting the pan-European, intergovernmental Gender Equality Commission (GEC) in developing the Council of Europe’s Gender Equality Strategy - which includes a dedicated objective on women’s access to justice - recommendations on preventing and combating sexism and on protecting the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls, and guidelines on the place of men and boys in gender equality policies and in policies to combat violence against women. The GEC is currently preparing new standards on AI and equality and on technology-facilitated violence against women and girls.
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