Roxanna Carrillo is a

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activist and feminist. Carrillo has worked for the

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for around twenty years. She was involved in the

United Nations Development Fund for Women The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, french: Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme, ) was established in December 1976 originally as the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women in the Internationa ...

(UNIFEM) where she studied

gender based violence Domestic violence (also known as domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation. ''Domestic violence'' is often used as a synonym for ''intimate partner ...

and its effect on women around the world.

Biography

Carrillo studied literature and linguistics at the

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. Carrillo earned her masters degree in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

. Carrillo began a relationship with

Charlotte Bunch Charlotte 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 Rutger ...

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 feminist organization. Carrillo was responsible for bringing the issue of

violence against women Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), are violent acts primarily or exclusively committed against women or girls, usually by men or boys. Such violence is often con ...

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

World Conference on Human Rights The World Conference on Human Rights was held by the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, on 14 to 25 June 1993. It was the first human rights conference held since the end of the Cold War. The main result of the conference was the Vienna Declarati ...

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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
' (via

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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Carrillo, Roxanna Living people Year of birth missing (living people) National University of San Marcos alumni Peruvian women activists Peruvian feminists Peruvian women writers Rutgers University alumni United Nations officials