Claudia Baroni is a Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer at the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Section, Division for Treaty Affairs, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). She joined UNODC in 1994. Throughout the years, she has supported and led the intergovernmental process that brought to the adoption of several key United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, including the updated Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (GA resolution 65/228). Likewise, she has coordinated the development of several criminal justice tools, the most recent ones being the UNODC Handbook for the Judiciary on Effective Criminal Justice Responses to Gender-based Violence against Women and Girls. Currently she is managing the UNODC portfolio on gender in the criminal justice system.