| Miren Ortubay Fuentes | |
| Birth Date: | 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Vitoria, Spain |
| Awards: | III Menina Basque Country Award (2019) |
| Alma Mater: | University of Deusto |
| Workplaces: | University of the Basque Country |
Miren Ortubay Fuentes (Vitoria, 1958) is a Spanish lawyer and criminologist, as well as a professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), specializing in gender-related violence and prisoners' rights.
Ortubay Fuentes graduated in law from the University of Deusto in 1980, and holds a Ph.D. in law from the same university. Her 1994 doctoral thesis was entitled, Spanish; Castilian: Relación de trabajo y tutela penal. She holds a diploma in Criminology from the Complutense University of Madrid, and did postgraduate studies in criminology at the university of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).
After completing her education, Ortubay Fuentes began her career as a lawyer. In 1982, she was the co-founder of Salaketa, the association of support to prisoners, located in Vitoria. From 1995 to 2006, she was legal advisor to the (Ombudsman of the Basque Country) being responsible for the areas of Justice and Equality of women and men.[1] [2]
Ortubay Fuentes is a full professor at UPV/EHU in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Work.[3] She teaches, among others, the subject Violence against Women: Prevention and Intervention.[4]
She is a member of the and collaborates with groups such as Spanish; Castilian: Otras Voces Feministas|italics=no and the (ONGD) Spanish; Castilian: Asociación por los Derechos Humanos en Afganistán|italics=no (ASDHA).[5] Ortubay Fuentes is a member of the Board of Trustees of the .[6]
Ortubay Fuentes, Lohitzune Zuloaga, and Estíbaliz de Miguel have participated together in the study Spanish; Castilian: Experiencia de la detención policial de las mujeres de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco (Experience of Police Detention of Women in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country).[7]