• Saturday, October 30, 2010
• Inter Press Service

Judges and other judicial officers in Argentina have begun to receive training on gender equality and women's rights, as part of a broad programme that could serve as a model for similar initiatives in the rest of Latin America.

The plan, which was launched Tuesday, will train facilitators to raise awareness on gender questions and promote the incorporation of a gender perspective among judges, prosecutors, court officers and administrative employees of the justice system.

'We selected 100 people in the judiciary throughout the country to train them on gender issues, because we detected serious inequalities and problems,' Carmen Argibay, the first woman named to the country's Supreme Court, told IPS. The Supreme Court justice said they found instances of discriminatory treatment of women victims as well as trials and sentences that failed to take into account the disadvantages suffered by many women because they live in a 'sexist, patriarchal system.'

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