Rosa María Mercedes Venegas Mello is a Peruvian politician and a Congresswoman representing

Piura Piura is a city in northwestern Peru located in the Sechura Desert on the Piura River. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province. Its population was 484,475 as of 2017. It was here that Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro fou ...

for the 2006–2011 term. Venegas belongs to the

Union for Peru Union for Peru ( es, Unión por el Perú) was a Peruvian political party founded by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, an ex- UN Secretary General, in 1994 to run for the Presidency of Peru in the 1995 general elections. Originally a social democratic pa ...

party. While in Congress, Venegas was the head of the Congressional Commission on Women and Social Development, where she was integral in promoting the Law of Equal Opportunity between Men and Women (Law 28983).

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