Alda Facio

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Facio and the second or maternal family name is Montejo.
Alda Facio
Born
Alda Facio Montejo

(1948-01-26) 26 January 1948 (age 76)
New York City, United States
NationalityCosta Rican
Alma materNew York University
University of Costa Rica
Occupation(s)Lawyer and writer
PredecessorPatricia Olamendi Torres
SuccessorDorothy Estrada-Tanck as UN expert
Parent(s)Gonzalo Facio Segreda
María Lilia Montejo Ortuño
RelativesGiannina Facio Franco (half-sister)

Alda Facio Montejo (born 26 January 1948) is a Costa Rican feminist jurist, writer, teacher and international expert in gender and human rights in Latin America. She is one of the founding members of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court.[1] Since 1991, she has been the Director of Women, Justice and Gender, a program within the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) and vice president of the Justice and Gender Foundation. She was also one of the founding members of Ventana in the 1970s, one of the first feminist organizations in her native Costa Rica.[2] In 2014, she was chosen to be one of the five United Nations special rapporteurs for the Working Group against Discrimination against Women and Girls.[3][4] Her term came to and end in 2020 and she was succeeded by Dorothy Estrada-Tanck.[5]

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  2. ^ "Alda Facio Montejo". inamu.go.cr (in Spanish). INAMU. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice - Members". United Nations.
  4. ^ Chung, Christine (27 September 2016). "The U.N.'s Working Group on Discrimination Against Women, Explained". News Deeply. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Current and former mandate holders". OHCHR. 1 May 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.