The University of Padua's Equal Opportunities Committee (CUG) has awarded UniTS researcher Giovanna Gilleri the Prize for Research on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation for her work entitled ‘Women, and All of Us: Article 5(a) CEDAW as a Protection for All Gendered Individuals’.

CEDAW stands for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979.

The committee has awarded the prize to Giovanna Gilleri for her innovative interpretation of Article 5(a) of the CEDAW Convention, in which through detailed legal analysis and dialogue with feminist and queer thought she demonstrates how the fight against gender stereotypes, by extending protection to all gender identities, can promote an inclusive vision of anti-discrimination law.