Gloria Consuelo Morales receives National Human Rights Award

The Council of the National Human Rights Award announced that sister Gloria Consuelo Morales Elizondo, founder of the NGO Citizens in Support of Human Rights (CADHAC).

It will also provide an honorary mention to Sandra Jiménez Loza for her work to protect the human rights of children and teenagers as well as people with disabilities.

Gloria Consuelo Morales was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León in March 1948. She belongs to the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de chanoinesses de Saint Augustin. She studied Social Work at the Vasco de Quiroga School in Mexico City and has a masters degree in Human Rights and Democracy from the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO).

CADHAC, founded by Sister Morales in 1993, helps prevent abuse in state orphanages in Nuevo León and also helps the families of victims of the war on drugs.

In 2011 she received the Alison des Forges award by Human Rights Watch and in February 2015 the Gilberto Bosques award from the embassies of Germany and France in Mexico.