Overview

• The Women and Family Committee approved the Renovación Popular-backed draft in an extraordinary session in Arequipa, sending it to the full Congress for debate.
• The proposal from congresswoman Milagros Jáuregui would swap the cross-cutting gender approach for an equality-of-opportunities framework in all public institutions.
• The text changes “comprehensive sex education” to “scientific, biological, ethical and values-based sex education” and emphasizes parental participation in schooling.
• Judges and prosecutors would be trained under the new approach, with a ban on training by NGOs that are litigating against the Peruvian state in national or international forums.
• Coverage notes additional provisions on language use and legislative alignment to constitutional standards, while specialists and legislators diverge over possible effects on education, justice and anti-violence programs.