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Miren Ortubay Fuentes

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Miren Ortubay Fuentes
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Miren Ortubay Fuentes (Vitoria, 1958) is a Spanish lawyer and criminologist, as well as a professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), specializing in gender-related violence and prisoners' rights.

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Ortubay Fuentes graduated in law from the University of Deusto in 1980, and holds a Ph.D. in law from the same university. Her 1994 doctoral thesis was entitled, Relación de trabajo y tutela penal. She holds a diploma in Criminology from the Complutense University of Madrid, and did postgraduate studies in criminology at the university of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).

After completing her education, Ortubay Fuentes began her career as a lawyer. In 1982, she was the co-founder of Salaketa, the association of support to prisoners, located in Vitoria. From 1995 to 2006, she was legal advisor to the Ararteko [es] (Ombudsman of the Basque Country) being responsible for the areas of Justice and Equality of women and men.[1][2]

Ortubay Fuentes is a full professor at UPV/EHU in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Work.[3] She teaches, among others, the subject Violence against Women: Prevention and Intervention.[4]

She is a member of the Fórum Feminista María de Maeztu [es] and collaborates with groups such as Otras Voces Feministas and the Organización no gubernamental para el desarrollo [es] (ONGD) Asociación por los Derechos Humanos en Afganistán (ASDHA).[5] Ortubay Fuentes is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fernando Buesa Blanco Foundation [es].[6]

Ortubay Fuentes, Lohitzune Zuloaga, and Estíbaliz de Miguel have participated together in the Instituto Vasco de la Mujer [es] study Experiencia de la detención policial de las mujeres de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco (Experience of Police Detention of Women in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country).[7]

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Awards and honours

  • 2019, III Menina Basque Country Awards to people committed to the eradication of gender-based violence in its various manifestations[8]

Selected works

  • Tutela penal de las condiciones de trabajo : un estudio del artículo 311 del Código penal, 2000 ISBN 9788483732588 OCLC 1010644234
  • Prisión y alternativas en el nuevo Código Penal tras la reforma 2015, 2016 ISBN 9788491480150 OCLC 1013183563

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