Gladys del Valle Requena (9 November 1952) is a

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politician. She served in the National Assembly until 2015, becoming the Minister for Women and Gender Equality under

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. After serving in his cabinet, she became a member of the

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. She has been sanctioned by the EU for her role in undermining the rule of law in the

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Career

Requena moved to Vargas with her family looking for a better quality of life. She became a professor of Spanish and literature after graduating from the Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas in 1977. She graduated as a lawyer from the

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in 1982, specializing in labor law. She was deputy to the National Assembly for the Vargas State and the president of the parliamentary Permanent Commission of Culture and Recreation. She is also one of the founders of the Regional Institute for Women in Vargas (''IREMUJER'') and the Women's Network in Vargas in 1997, as well as member of the organizing commission of the Unitary Platform of Revolutionary Women in 2007 and the national commission for the National Women's Front in 2009. Requena was a delegate in several conferences for the

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(WIDF), such as the

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summit in

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, 2012, the WIDF Direction Committee in

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, 2009 and the Fifth WIDF Regional Conference in

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, 2009. From 2011 to 2014 she was the National Assembly delegate to the

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in six summits in

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and

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. She was member of the

International Sanctions

On June 29, 2020, she was sanctioned by the EU, effectively freezing her assets in and barring her from traveling to the EU jurisdictions, citing her "persistent actions undermining democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights". The EU specifically cited her role in stripping

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of his parliamentary immunity.

Honors

* June 27 Second Class Order. Education Ministry. 1997. * Venezuelan Heroines Order. Republic's presidency. 2009. * Arminio Borjas Single Class Order. Lawyers College Federation. 2009.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Requena, Gladys 1952 births Living people People from Sucre (state) United Socialist Party of Venezuela politicians Women government ministers of Venezuela Women members of the National Assembly (Venezuela) Members of the National Assembly (Venezuela) 21st-century Venezuelan women politicians 21st-century Venezuelan politicians Central University of Venezuela alumni People of the Crisis in Venezuela Members of the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly of 2017