{"id":20227,"date":"2025-05-22T13:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/fundacion-amparo-y-justicia-welcomes-maria-jose-bowen-as-its-new-deputy-director-of-legal-affairs-and-public-policy-advocacy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:11:37","slug":"fundacion-amparo-y-justicia-welcomes-maria-jose-bowen-as-its-new-deputy-director-of-legal-affairs-and-public-policy-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/fundacion-amparo-y-justicia-welcomes-maria-jose-bowen-as-its-new-deputy-director-of-legal-affairs-and-public-policy-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundaci\u00f3n Amparo y Justicia welcomes Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Bowen as its new Deputy Director of Legal Affairs and Public Policy Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Recognized for her strong background in Criminal Law and her commitment to defending the rights of children and adolescents, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Bowen joins the Fundaci\u00f3n Amparo y Justicia team as Deputy Director of Legal Affairs and Public Policy Advocacy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bowen is a lawyer from the University of Chile and holds a master\u2019s degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences awarded by Pompeu Fabra University and the University of Barcelona. She has 20 years of experience at the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, where she carried out outstanding work in the investigation of sexual crimes and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2005, and in a specialized capacity since 2008, she has been dedicated to investigating sexual crimes and gender-based violence. In 2014, she was appointed Deputy Prosecutor of Valpara\u00edso, and in 2019, she assumed the role of Chief Deputy Prosecutor of the Villa Alemana Local Prosecutor\u2019s Office. In these roles, she led complex investigations, including international operations against child abuse networks and cases involving multiple victims.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, she moved to the Oriente Regional Prosecutor\u2019s Office in the Regi\u00f3n Metropolitana, where she joined the specialized gender unit, exclusively dedicated to investigating sexual crimes. Throughout her career, she has secured significant convictions, including life sentences, which have brought justice to victims of sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout all these years, what has motivated me is a deep vocation to repair and protect victims, especially children and adolescents. Joining the Foundation represents a new way to continue that commitment, from a different space, but with the same conviction\u201d, Bowen expressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognized for her strong background in Criminal Law and her commitment to defending the rights of children and adolescents, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Bowen joins the Fundaci\u00f3n Amparo y Justicia team as Deputy Director of Legal Affairs and Public Policy Advocacy. Bowen is a lawyer from the University of Chile and holds a master\u2019s degree in Criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayj.lajuguera.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}