Paula Wachter

Biography

Paula Wachter is the Founder and Director of Fundación Red por la Infancia, the social organization she founded in order to promote a comprehensive approach to violence against women and children. Social entrepreneur of Ashoka, is also a member of the Global Alliance to End Violence Against Children of the World Health Organization. Her work was distinguished with the first prize for social innovation in Human Rights in Latin America by Ashoka Changemakers and Ford Foundation. Paula has been promoting significant legislative and public policy changes during the past decade.

Accomplishments:
Canada Fund Grantee 2015
Ashoka Fellow 2016
Ford Foundation Grantee 2016
International Service for Human Rights fellow 2017
INSPIRE Working Group and Committee Member 2018
Member of the Global Alliance to End Violence Against Children
Keynote Speaker for civil society at the 35th Human Rights Council Session, UN
Independent expert at Argentina’s UPR Pre Sessions, UN
INSPIRE Advisory Board member and Working Group, an initiative from the The World Health Organization (WHO) to end violence against children, in collaboration with the CDC, PAHO, PEPFAR, Together for Girls, UNICEF, UNODC, USAID and the World Bank (agencies with a long history of galvanizing a consistent, evidence-based approach to preventing violence against children).
Member of the Argentine National Advisory Committee created by Law 27.210 on Public policies on Gender Violence