LUCIA AVILES PALACIOS

Criminal Judge, expert in gender-based violence against women. Judge in Criminal Court nº 2 of Mataró (Barcelona-Spain), in July 22th, 2021 after the conviction of a man for the non-payment of alimony, exercised a pioneer legislative initiative. There is no precedent in any other country. She is asking the Government of Spain for a legislative change that recognizes economic violence as gender violence. By postulating a legislative change, it is the culmination of judging with a gender (and childhood) perspective by identifying the context of gender violence in which the non-payment of the maintenance obligation takes place in this case and its use to achieve the economic restriction of the mother and daughter perpetuating a situation of gender violence through the economic violence.