Patsilí Toledo Vásquez

Patsilí Toledo Vásquez is a feminist activist, scholar and consultant on women’s human rights, specialising in violence, gender and criminal justice. She holds a PhD in Public Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she works as a researcher at the Antígona research group. She graduated in Law from the University of Chile, where she also obtained a diploma in Women’s Human Rights. Since 2014, she has been an associate professor of Gender and Criminal Justice system at Pompeu Fabra University. She has been a consultant on responses to feminicide and sexual violence, especially in Latin American and South Asian countries, working for several United Nations agencies, such as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), UN Women of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OACNUDH). She was also a consultant to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) contributing to the General Recommendation No. 35 on Gender Violence Against Women (2017), and developed the first comprehensive impact assessment of COVID-19 on the responses of justice systems to gender-based violence for UNODC (2021). She has also been an adviser on women’s rights and LGBTIQ+ rights for the Ministry of Equality and Feminisms at the Government of Catalonia.