Miren Ortubay Fuentes

Spanish lawyer and criminologist

Lawyer
criminologist
professor

AwardsIII Menina Basque Country Award (2019)Academic backgroundAlma materUniversity of DeustoAcademic workDiscipline

Law
Criminology

Sub-discipline

Gender studies
Penology

InstitutionsUniversity of the Basque CountryMain interests

Gender-related violence
prisoners' rights

Miren Ortubay Fuentes (Vitoria, 1958) is a Spanish lawyer and criminologist, as well as a professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), specializing in gender-related violence and prisoners' rights.

Biography

Ortubay Fuentes graduated in law from the University of Deusto in 1980, and holds a Ph.D. in law from the same university. Her 1994 doctoral thesis was entitled, Relación de trabajo y tutela penal. She holds a diploma in Criminology from the Complutense University of Madrid, and did postgraduate studies in criminology at the university of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).

After completing her education, Ortubay Fuentes began her career as a lawyer. In 1982, she was the co-founder of Salaketa, the association of support to prisoners, located in Vitoria. From 1995 to 2006, she was legal advisor to the Ararteko [es] (Ombudsman of the Basque Country) being responsible for the areas of Justice and Equality of women and men.^[1]^[2]

Ortubay Fuentes is a full professor at UPV/EHU in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Work.^[3] She teaches, among others, the subject Violence against Women: Prevention and Intervention.^[4]

She is a member of the Fórum Feminista María de Maeztu [es] and collaborates with groups such as Otras Voces Feministas and the Organización no gubernamental para el desarrollo [es] (ONGD) Asociación por los Derechos Humanos en Afganistán (ASDHA).^[5] Ortubay Fuentes is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fernando Buesa Blanco Foundation [es].^[6]

Ortubay Fuentes, Lohitzune Zuloaga, and Estíbaliz de Miguel have participated together in the Instituto Vasco de la Mujer [es] study Experiencia de la detención policial de las mujeres de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco (Experience of Police Detention of Women in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country).^[7]

Awards and honours

2019, III Menina Basque Country Awards to people committed to the eradication of gender-based violence in its various manifestations^[8]

Selected works

Tutela penal de las condiciones de trabajo : un estudio del artículo 311 del Código penal, 2000 ISBN 9788483732588 OCLC 1010644234
Prisión y alternativas en el nuevo Código Penal tras la reforma 2015, 2016 ISBN 9788491480150 OCLC 1013183563

References

^ "Miren Ortubay Fuentes". GALDE (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^ "Situación de las cárceles en el País Vasco" (PDF). ararteko.net (in Spanish). March 1996. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^ Uriarte, Natalia González de (26 June 2015). ""El sistema penal castiga y ese no es siempre el objetivo de la mujer maltratada que denuncia"". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^ Andrades, Amanda. ""Para que desaparezca la violencia contra las mujeres hay que avanzar en igualdad"". ctxt.es (in Spanish). CTXT. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^ Azumendi, Eduardo (25 November 2017). ""El sistema penal es muy hostil para las víctimas de la violencia machista"". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^ Miren Ortubay. XIV ANIVERSARIO IN MEMORIAM POR FERNANDO BUESA Y JORGE DÍEZ. youtube.com. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^ "La masculinización de las comisarías hace más vulnerables a las mujeres". EITB (in Spanish). 16 January 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^ "Jesús Loza presenta los actos con motivo del Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer". mpt.gob.es. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2023.