Clínic Barcelona

A Conference to discuss the future scientific and legal challenges of Gender Violence

Gender-based violence, on addition to a risk on physical integrity creates a state of chronic stress and alert which affect the quality of life of those suffering it. It is mandatory to work towards the eradication of this form of violence using all possible scientific and legal strategies. An interdisciplinary group of researchers, physicians, psychologists and lawyers, will participate tomorrow , Friday December 13th from 16h at the CEK Building’s Esteve Auditorium (C / Rosselló 149-153; 08036, Barcelona), a conference to discuss this problem from different perspectives. The initiative has been promoted by Dr. Maria Victoria Sanchez-Vives, ICREA researcher on Neurosciences at the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) and associate professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Barcelona (UB), together with Marc Cerón, from the Department of Justice of the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya).