Alda Facio

Alda Facio is a lawyer, scholar, and feminist activist. She is a member of Just Associates (JASS), and a member of the Group of Experts on the Issue of Discrimination against women in the UN Human Rights Council. She is a founder and first Director of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court.

The Handmaid's Tale of El Salvador

Poverty, misogyny, and Christian fundamentalism in El Salvador lie behind the prison sentences of up to forty years handed down to seventeen women who were arrested for the crime of abortion, but sentenced for murder.

By Alda Facio and Cristina Hardaga

/ 27 Nov 2014

Political motherhood vs violence against mothers

The Activist Mothers of Xalapa have united their individual power as mothers to create a collective political motherhood that has resisted many patriarchal institutions in the past, and could well be the driving force of a new society based on nurturing life instead of selling it, says Alda Facio.

By Alda Facio

/ 25 Nov 2013

Women Redefining Democracy

The proposed Second International Conference: Women Redefining Democracy will build on those understandings. It will challenge the dominant notion of democracy as being rooted to the presence of elections organized

By Alda Facio

/ 7 May 2009