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Vanessa Mendoza Cortés

HRD, Head
Stop Violències

Vanessa Mendoza Cortés is a psychologist and women’s rights defender. She is head of Stop Violències, a human rights organisation that works on gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights and advocates for the decriminalisation of abortion in Andorra.

Human rights in Andorra are generally respected by the government, and the law and the judiciary provided effective means of dealing with individual instances of abuse.