Roxanna Carrillo is a

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activist and

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. Carrillo has worked for the

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for around twenty years. She was involved in the

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(UNIFEM) where she studied gender based violence and its effect on women around the world.

Biography

Carrillo studied literature and linguistics at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Carrillo earned her master's degree in

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from

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

. Carrillo began a relationship with

Charlotte Bunch Charlotte Anne Bunch (born October 13, 1944) is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at ...

that was both professional and personal in 1983. The two worked on feminist projects in

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and have been together for more than thirty years.

Work

Carrillo is one of the founders of the Flora Tristán Peruvian Women's Center, a

organization. Carrillo was responsible for bringing the issue of

violence against women Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence (GBV) or sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), violent, violence primarily committed by Man, men or boys against woman, women or girls. Such violence is often considered hat ...

to international prominence at the

(UN) in the early 1990s. In 1991, she wrote a research paper for the Human Rights Commission on this topic and how violence affected women's lives. Later, Carrillo was hired by the

(UNIFEM) as a consultant on violence against women. Carrillo's research at UNIFEM found that worldwide, a lack of economic opportunity was at the root of many different forms of violence against women. This research (''Battered Dreams: Violence Against Women as an Obstacle to Development''), in addition to work done by

, was the basis of "mandating a broader focus for UNIFEM in the early 1990s." In 1993, she was part of the group that put "women's rights as human rights" on the agenda for the

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. Carrillo worked for the

for around twenty years.

References

External links

Roxanna Carrillo: Vienna at 25
* Full text of
Gender Violence: A Development and Human Rights Issue
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