Belén Martín María (Vice-President / Spain)
Born in 1968, Madrid, Spain.
Profile in members database: Belén Martín María
E-mail: spain@ewla.org or E-mail: Belen.Martin.Maria@ewla.org
Lawyer from 1991, working especially in civil law (family and foreigner laws) and in criminal law defending women and children, with own law firm.
From 1992 member of the spanish Women Lawyer Association, Themis. Between 1998-2001 Secretary of the board.
Lawyer (2001) in the municipal Service for the attention to women victims of domestic violence in Madrid. In 2002 and 2003 coordinator of this Service.
Since the end of 2003 and actually lawyer of the Association for the assistance of women an children victims of rape and other sexual offences.
Otther activities:
Qualification in Agent of equal opportunities.
Preparation and coordination, with María Durán Febrer, of the DAPHNE PROJECT “PROTEGER (2000), and the European Conference in matter of gender violence –Calviá, Mallorca april 2000-.
Attendance at conference, meeting and lecture about the rights of women, violence against women…, amongs other matters:
European Conference: Rape is a war crime, Vienna June 1999
Meeting between spanish organization’s reoresentative and Kvinofrid about “Method for the intervention in the erradicatin of the violence against women”, Stockholm December 1999.
European Conference Beijing+5, Brussels February 2000.
XVII Congress of the International Federation of Women in Legal Courses.: “The violence against the women and the human rights”, Toledo September 2000.
I Congress of the European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA). Sevilla , June 2001.
II International Conference about violence against women, Madrid May 2002.
Publications (in collaboration):
“Judicial response to the family violence” Women Lawyer Association Themis, 2000.
“Economic and socials effects of the gender violence in Andalucía” Women Institut of Andalucía, 2003.
Guide: Good practices and forensic uses to fight against the gender violence in Europe and the Proposed Directive about gender violence. Project Daphne Proteger, 2001.
Guide: Rights of the women victims of family violence. Themis, 2001, reedit 2002 and 2003
Guide for the practice application of the Act 35/95, about assistance and economic aid for the victims of violent crime and against the sexual freedom. Women Institut of Andalucía and Themis, 2004.
Profile in members database: Belén Martín María
E-mail: spain@ewla.org or E-mail: Belen.Martin.Maria@ewla.org