​2019 Beneficiary

Las Libres is the 2019 Ser Mujer Beneficiary.  Their founder, Veronica Cruz is a recipient of the
International Human Rights Award.
Las Libres, a women’s human rights organization in Mexico, fought to free six women who had been incarcerated and convicted of homicide for terminating their pregnancies.
 
One of the women hadn’t even had an abortion, but had miscarried. But that didn’t matter.
 
All of them were sentenced to between 20 and 30 years in jail.