Isabel Vericat Núñez (born c. 1970) is a Spanish-Mexican lawyer, book writer and translator of many languages.

Biography

Isabel Vericat Núñez was born in Spain. She studied law at the University of Madrid (disambiguation). During 1999, she worked as a lawyer in New York City. She speaks Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese. Vericat Núñez is the founding member of Epikeia, an organization dedicated to women's rights. She is also a member of the Writer's Dynamic School, and she has written many books for the Mexico College and the

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

. Her work focuses on the experiences of women migrating within Central America, particularly along the border between Guatemala and Mexico. Vericat Núñez is known for her involvement in the movement against killings of women in Ciudad Juarez. She wrote De Este Lado de la Puente/From this Side of the Bridge, a book about Maria Elena Chavez Caldera, a teenaged victim of

femicide Femicide or feminicide is a hate crime which is broadly defined as "the intentional killing of women or girls because they are female," but definitions of it vary depending on cultural context. In 1976, the feminist author Diana E. H. Russel ...

in Ciudad Juarez.

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External links

crlp.com, in Spanish
an essay by Isabel Vericat Nuñez 1970 births Living people Mexican translators 21st-century Mexican lawyers 21st-century Mexican women writers Mexican expatriates in Spain 20th-century Spanish lawyers Spanish women writers Spanish people of Mexican descent Mexican women lawyers Spanish women lawyers 20th-century women lawyers 21st-century women lawyers {{Spain-law-bio-stub