Ilaria Boiano

Lawyer, Bar of Rome

Ilaria Boiano is a lawyer of the Bar of Rome, with experience in protecting rights of women and the rights of migrants. She has a PhD in Criminal Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa with a doctoral thesis on violence against women in criminal legal discourse. She has conducted research at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and at European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, continuing her training with international seminars and courses, lastly at the CWASU (Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit), London Metropolitan University (Fall 2013). She is a gender law researcher onl research projects funded by the European Commission and contributed to the report ‘The criminalisation of irregular immigration: law and practice in Italy’, with the support of OSFs. A feminist activist, since 2009 she has been part of the legal office of the NGO Differenza Donna giving legal advice and assistance to migrant women suffering from trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation, sexual violence and intimate partner violence. She contributed to the drafting of the civil society shadow report submitted to the CEDAW Committee in 2011 on the implementation of CEDAW in Italy and to the report, ‘What is really being done in Italy’ on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.