Alda Facio
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26 January 1948
Alda Facio | |
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| Born | Alda Facio Montejo 26 January 1948 New York City, United States |
| Alma mater | New York University University of Costa Rica |
| Occupations | Lawyer and writer |
| Predecessor | Patricia Olamendi Torres |
| Successor | Dorothy Estrada-Tanck as UN expert |
| Parent(s) | Gonzalo Facio Segreda María Lilia Montejo Ortuño |
| Relatives | Giannina 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]