CSW 56 Participant Voices- Margarita Quintanilla

Margarita Quintanilla has extensively worked in the field of gender-based violence, with both governmental institutions and non-governmental organizations. She is currently the country representative of the international organization PATH, in Nicaragua, which works, among others, to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls, through community-based approaches and by strengthening the health services' responses to victims/survivors. She is also the coordinator of InterCambios Alliance, a regional network of organisations, created to coordinate different efforts that address violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the author of numerous publications on gender-based violence and she carried out monitoring and evaluation of several interventions addressing violence against women in the region, which resulted in compilation of good practices and lessons learnt.Related Story on unwomen.org:Young People at the Forefront of the Fight for Equality and against Gender Violence in Ecuadorhttp://www.unwomen.org/2011/11/espanol-los-jovenes-lideran-la-lucha-por…