Gladys del Valle Requena (9 November 1952) is a

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politician who has been a member of the

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and minister. She was also a member of the

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Career

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

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in 1982. She specialized 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 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 conformation of the National Women Front in 2009. Requena has been a delegate in several conferences for the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), such as the São Paulo Forum 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 is currently a member of the

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 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