More training and specialized judges for gender violencegender violence Violence a woman suffers from a current or former partner because she is a woman. cases

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1. All exams to enter or advance in the judicial and prosecutorial careers must include the study of equality between women and men and violence against women, also in training at the Judicial School and in continuing education.
2. Specialization exams on violence against women are created to fill positions in specialized courts, both Violence Against Women Courts and specialized criminal courts. Positions go to those who prove that specialization and rank highest on the seniority list.
3. In the Provincial Courts, one appellate section will exclusively hear appeals against rulings by the violence against women courts, and its positions will be filled by specialized judges.
4. The Governing Body of the Judiciary must study the lack of rooms that prevent the victim and the aggressor from facing each other during the process, and promote their creation with the Ministry of Justice and the Autonomous Communities. They must be fully accessible.
5. The Observatory against Domestic and Gender Violence will evaluate court data, and an annual published report on gender and sexual violence will be produced, broken down by disability, with a registry of minors who are victims.
6. Within six months the court map will be reviewed to set up criminal courts specialized in violence against women, either exclusively or combined with other matters. Statistical reports on these crimes must include a disability indicator.

Who it affects

• Judges, who must train in equality and non-discrimination and can specialize in violence against women.: New exams and mandatory training.
• Prosecutors, whose entrance exams will also cover these subjects.: Changes to selection exams.
• Victims of gender violence, who can testify without facing the aggressor in accessible rooms.: Better protection during the process.
• Minors who are victims of gender violence, who will have their own statistical registry.: Specific data.
• People with disabilities, since court statistics will include that indicator.: Broken-down data.

Words worth knowing

Carreras Judicial y Fiscal

The bodies of judges (Carrera Judicial) and prosecutors (Carrera Fiscal).

Escalafón

The ranking of judges by seniority and rank, which decides who has priority for positions.

Consejo General del Poder Judicial

The body that governs judges: it selects, trains and manages their assignments.

Planta judicial

The number and distribution of courts across the country.

Concurso

System for assigning court positions among serving judges, based on merit.

gender violence

Violence a woman suffers from a current or former partner because she is a woman.

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