WICC2025-PID159-Claudia Baroni

Gender-Responsive Prison Reform In Countries Supported By UNODC

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Claudia Baroni

Team Leader, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Austria

Claudia Baroni is Team Leader, Gender in Criminal Justice Team, at the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer at the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Section, Division for Treaty Affairs, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). She joined UNODC in 1994 an she has worked in different areas of work of the Office such as:
- corruption;
- transnational organised crime;
- strengthening criminal justice systems in post-conflict countries, including training of police component of UN peacekeeping missions; and
- criminal justice reform, with a particular focus on victims assistance and gender in the criminal justice system (i.e. women victims and women offenders/prisoners).

Throughout the years, she has supported and lead the intergovernmental process that brought to the adoption of several key United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, including:
a) the updated Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (GA resolution 65/228);

b) the UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (i.e. Bangkok Rules, GA resolution 65/229; and

c) the UN Principles and Guidelines and access to legal aid in criminal justice systems (GA resolution 67/187).

Likewise, she has coordinated the development of several criminal justice tools the most recent ones being the UNODC Handbook for the Judiciary on Effective Criminal Justice Responses to Gender-based Violence against Women and Girls. Currently she is managing the UNODC portfolio on gender in the criminal justice system.

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