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Costa Rica’s Constitutional Chamber reviews challenge to law removing municipalities’ gender perspective requirement Image: Rafael Pacheco Granados
🇨🇷 Costa Rica /Elections & Politics

Costa Rica’s Constitutional Chamber reviews challenge to law removing municipalities’ gender perspective requirement

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Costa Rica’s Constitutional Chamber has accepted for review a constitutional challenge against a law that removed municipalities’ explicit obligation to incorporate a gender perspective.
  • The challenge also contests the removal of language allowing municipalities to create Women’s Offices.
  • The Ombudsman’s Office argues that Article 17 of Law No. 8801 could represent a rollback of women’s rights.

Costa Rica’s Constitutional Chamber has taken up a challenge against a municipal law that removed an explicit requirement to apply a gender perspective.

The action was filed by the Ombudsman’s Office against Article 17 of the General Law on the Transfer of Executive Powers to Municipalities, Law No. 8801. It also challenges the removal of municipalities’ express authority to create Women’s Offices.

The Ombudsman’s Office says the changes could represent a retreat in women’s rights. The Constitutional Chamber’s decision to process the filing begins its review of those claims.

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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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