Laura Capobianco
February 6, 2020 — People
Policy Specialist, Safe Public Spaces, UN Women Headquarters
Laura Capobianco is a Senior Policy Advisor on Safe Public Spaces in the Ending Violence against Women and Girls Section. Since 2012, she has contributed to the development of a Global Framework on Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces and an accompanying global package of tools that are being adapted by and help to support action in over 45 Safe Cities/Safe Public Spaces free of Violence against Women and Girls programmes, including 6 cities in Canada.
The Initiative is aimed at preventing and responding to sexual violence in public spaces in urban, rural and other settings, and contributes to SDGs 4,5,11 and 16. She has worked as a Senior Analyst and Project Manager for 10 years at the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime based in Canada, where she conducted comparative research on women’s safety, Indigenous peoples and community safety, and written on the roles of the police, private sector, local government, and the media in prevention.
She also has extensive experience managing prevention programmes and working with diverse stakeholders in the Caribbean Region, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and in Norway, Canada, Australia and the US.