Johana Pesántez

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Pesántez and the second or maternal family name is Benítez.
Johana Pesántez
Minister of Justice, Human Rights and Religious Affairs
In office
13 May 2011 – 18 June 2013
President Rafael Correa
Preceded by José Serrano
Succeeded by Lenin Lara
Personal details
Born (1975-11-20) 20 November 1975
Quito, Ecuador
Alma mater Pablo de Olavide University
Sapienza University of Rome
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Johana Farina Pesántez Benítez (born 20 November 1975) is an Ecuadorian politician, she was Minister of Justice, Human Rights and Religious Affairs between 13 May 2011 and 18 June 2013.

Personal life

Johana Pesántez was born on 20 November 1975 in Quito.[1] Pesántez speaks five languages, besides her native Spanish they are English, Portuguese, French and Italian.[1]

Education

Pesántez has a licentiate in Juridical Science and a doctorate in Jurisprudence by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. She has a postgraduate degree in Roman Right by the Sapienza University of Rome and a doctorate in 'Current programs in criminal law and criminology' by the Pablo de Olavide University. Between 2003 and 2011 Pesántez was a Law professor in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and the Universidad de las Américas. She also worked shorter periods for Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica and the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja.[1]

Political career

From 2008 to 2011 Pesántez was Interinstitutional Judicial Advisor of the National Directorate of Judicial Advisors to the Presidency of the National Court of Justice. Between January and May 2011 Pesántez was judicial advisor to the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. In May 2011 she was named Minister of Justice, Human Rights and Religious Affairs.[1][2] During her term as Minister she was confronted with the severe overcrowding of prisons and several escapes by detainees.[3] On the topic of human rights, Pesántez sees the Universal Periodic Review, a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council, as a good system for Ecuador to strengthen its democracy. In 2012, 97% of the recommendations made to Ecuador via this system were supposed to be implemented by the government.[4] On 28 and 29 November 2012 Ecuador hosted the Ninth Meeting of Justice Ministers of the Organization of American States. Pesántez inaugurated the meeting together with the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza.[5]

Her term in office ended on 18 June 2013 when she was replaced as Minister by Lenin Lara.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 (Spanish) "Curriculum Vitae", Ministerio de Justicia, Derechos Humanos y Cultos, Ecuador
  2. ↑ (Spanish) Ministra Ministerio de Justicia, Derechos Humanos y Cultos
  3. ↑ (Spanish) Pesántez: Para mí, una fuga es un delito y siempre debió tratarse así, El Telégrafo, 13 February 2013
  4. ↑ Ecuadorian Minister of Justice receives UPR final report in Geneva Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio e Integración, Ecuador, 23 May 2012
  5. ↑ Ninth meeting of Justice Ministers of the Americas in Quito to discuss regional developments in access to justice and legal cooperation Organization of American States, 21 November 2012
  6. ↑ "Cambios en Turismo, Justicia y Comercio en el gabinete presidencial" (in Spanish). Ecuavisa. 18 June 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, February 04, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.