# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/veronica-cruz-sanchez
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:28:08.885Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/veronica-cruz-sanchez"
name: "Verónica Cruz Sánchez"
slug: "veronica-cruz-sanchez"
description: "Verónica Cruz Sánchez is a Mexican human rights defender. She was the first Mexican to be awarded the Defender of Human Rights award from Human Rights Watch. In 2006, she was awarded the honor for her work with women's right to access legal and medical services. She brings public awareness to the situation of predominantly uneducated, indigenous and impoverished women who are imprisoned for abortion and miscarriage in Mexico. Cruz has worked to decriminalize and destigmatize women's decisions over their bodies and reproductive rights. She is founder of Las Libres, an organization dedicated to the defense, guarantee and respect of human rights for women in the state of Guanajuato and across Mexico."
tagline: "Mexican activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Veronica_Cruz_Sanchez_(2230691851).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
birthDate: "1971-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.43
  momentum:             5.217391304347827
  historical:           4.604104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "فيرونيكا كروز سانشيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Verónica Cruz Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Cruz_S%C3%A1nchez"
    title: "Verónica Cruz Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Cruz_S%C3%A1nchez"
    title: "Verónica Cruz Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Cruz_S%C3%A1nchez"
    title: "Verónica Cruz Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19364597"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump