The Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation commemorates International Women’s Day

“For parity. 50% men, 50% women in all positions”, declared the president of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation Ana Maria Figueroaduring the commemoration of International Women’s Day in the central hall of the courts of Comodoro Py in 2002, where she inaugurated a photographic exhibition under the name of “Visibilizing Women”, focusing on the historic struggle for their rights.

The Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber organized this Wednesday a day of commemoration where the secretary general of the CPR, John Montesano Ribbonand the judge Figueroawho underlined the importance of this date and urged “men and women to work side by side to build a better, fairer, more united and egalitarian society”.

The act summoned lawyers, magistrates, officials and employees of the judiciary. The cassation judges were present as well Mariano Borinsky, Gustavo Hornos, Diego Barroetevaña, Daniel Petrone, Javier Carbajo and Angela Ledesma. “Here we are, the two women from Casación,” Figueroa said into the microphone. There were also oral court judges such as Sabrina Namer, Néstor Costabel, José Michelini or Ricardo Basílico and prosecutors such as Gabriela Baigún and Paloma Ochoa, among others.

The act began with a speech by the Secretary General of the Criminal Cassation Chamber who, after welcoming those present, read the words of the President of the Supreme Court, Horace Rosatti, as part of the commemorated day. SO Montesano Rebon gave a speech in which he underlined the importance of the events that gave rise to International Women’s Day and also highlighted the work carried out by the CPR Gender and Justice Commission, which is dedicated to developing strategies and practices to promote gender parity.

At the end, the judge spoke Ana Maria Figueroa, who in turn currently works as coordinator of the Gender and Justice Commission. In this line, and after recalling his experience in the different roles he held associated with the subject, he advocated “the need to work to achieve the appointment of women in the Judiciary, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Chambers, Tribunals and Courtssince currently the proportion of female judges is 37% against 63% of male judges”.

Likewise, he stressed the respect – on the part of the Judiciary – of constitutional and conventional norms tending to “modify unequal social relations and the inequitable distribution of roles between women and men”. After which, he looked at the statistics of the Federal Chamber of Cassation concerning “the 1042 convictions for trafficking in women and human beings over the last ten years”.

“There is still a lot of progress and a lot remains to be done,” said the president of Cassation. And in this sense, he encouraged “men and women to work side by side to build a better, fairer, more united and egalitarian society», to end his speech with the proposal to « work so that March 8 becomes the International Day of Women’s Rights and Gender Parity ».

At the end of the exhibitions, a thematic video prepared by the Gender and Justice Commission was shown and the photographic exhibition which includes different women at different historical moments under the common denominator of the struggle for their rights was officially inaugurated. On the other hand, and within the framework of the commemorations of the date of international celebration, the Women’s Office, created under the orbit of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, initiated an educational workshop related to Law 27.499 – better known as the “Micaela” Law – the object of which is the mandatory gender training for all members of the three powers of the state.

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