According to the organisers, ‘it is a cliché, among people related to Law, to say that justice is blind, but, is it a reality that when brought to justice everyone is equal or is it a must-be?’. And they also add: ‘Among all the issues that this approach includes, we have chosen the situation in which women are constitutional subjects; how the fact of being women has an influence on their right to have a life without violence, and, on the other hand, we will talk about women’s rights when they go to prison.’

Among the participants will be Inmaculada Montalbán, president of the Equality Committee and the Observatory against gender violence in the General Council of the Judiciary from 2008 to 2013; Susana Gisbert, prosecutor since 1992, who practises in the Violence against women Section; or Mercedes Gallizo, who was the general director of the Penitentiary Institutions from 2004 to 2011.

The conference will be held in the Joaquín Tomas Villarroya Hall.

PROGRAMME

10:00. Opening of the session. Gabriela Bravo, provincial counsellor for Justice, Public administration, Democratic Reforms and Public Freedoms; María Elena Olmos, dean of the Faculty of Law; and Amparo Mañes, from the Equality Unit.

10:15. Conference: Gender violence: a matter of State. Inmaculada Montalbán, magistrate of the Higher Court of Justice of Andalusia.

Hosted by: María Elena Olmos, Dean of the Faculty of Law.

11:30. Conference: Gender and violence, analysis of the integrated law against gender violence. Susana Gisbert, prosecutor of the Violence against women Section in Valencia. Hosted by: Elena Martínez, professor of Procedural law in the UV and Master's Degree in Law and Gender Violence in the UV.

16:30. Conference: The situation of women in prison: success or failure of the reintegration measures? Mercedes Gallizo, member of parliament in the Madrid’s Assembly. General Director of the Penitentiary Institutions (2004-2011). Hosted by: Rosa Peris, spokesperson of the PSPV Commission for Justice, Valencian Courts.

17:30. Round-table: “What about the media?” Importance of the transmission of news in the configuration of the social imaginary. Julia Ruiz, Levante EMV; MªJosé Serra, El País Comunidad Valenciana; Loreto Ochando, Valencia Plaza; Elena Morales, Cadena Ser Valencia. Moderated by: Asunción Ventura Franch, professor of Constitutional Law in the UJI.