María Perceval
| María Cristina Perceval | |
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| Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations | |
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Assumed office November 23, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Jorge Argüello |
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Argentine Senator from Mendoza Province |
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In office December 10, 2001 – December 10, 2009 |
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| Succeeded by | Laura Montero |
| Personal details | |
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September 10, 1956 Mendoza, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Political party | Justicialist Party/Front for Victory |
| Spouse(s) | Pablo Martín |
| Profession | Professor of Philosophy and Epistemology |
María Cristina "Marita" Perceval (born September 10, 1956) is an Argentine politician and member of the Justicialist Party. She was appointed Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations in September 2012.
Perceval was born in Mendoza, Argentina, to Julio Perceval, a musician and founder of the music department of the National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), and Alejandrina Suárez, the first female organist in Argentina. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy with a special focus on Gender Studies, Epistemology and Human Rights from the UNCuyo (1980).
She began a career in academia as a university professor and in public administration, coordinating projects for the provincial governments of Mendoza and Buenos Aires Provinces as well as the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. Perceval was the Project Director of Research on Epistemology, Gender Studies, and Human Rights at UNCuyo from 1988 to 1992; Assistant Professor of the History of Sciences, Philosophy, and Metaphysics at her alma mater between 1990 and 2001; and Professor of Advanced Epistemology at UNCuyo between 1998 and 2001. She founded and served as Director of the Institute of Social Management at the University of Aconcagua, and served as President of the Institute for Women in Mendoza from 1993 to 1995.
María Perceval is married and has three children. She authored numerous articles and studies on children's rights and women's rights.
Perceval followed her early political mentor, José Bordón, and other left-wing Peronists into the FrePaSo coalition ahead of the 1995 election, but later returned to the Justicialist Party. She was elected to the Senate for Mendoza Province in 2001 and re-elected in 2003, later joining the majority Front for Victory parliamentary caucus. She pursued a greater role for women in Senate committees historically chaired and dominated by men, and in 2007 become chairwoman of the Defense Committee; in that capacity she became known for an unsuccessful effort in 2008 to rescind military courts martial in favor a civil trials, as she believed that courts martial deprive servicemen and women of due process. Senator Perceval also focused on the strengthening of democracy and democratic institutions, as well as promoting civil, political, social, cultural, and economic human rights. Some of the most notable bills she authored include Regulación de la Tenencia de Armas (Regulations on Gun Possession) in 2002, and Plan de Desarme (Action Plan on Disarmament for light weapons) in 2006. Perceval also authored bills against violence against women, among them “Prevention and Punishment of Human Trafficking” (2008) and “Prevention and Punishment of Violence Against Women” (2009).
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