Overview
- Verónica Villaseñor received the CEDH Michoacán 2025 Human Rights Merit award in Morelia for her advocacy following the 2020 femicide of her daughter, Jessica González.
- She dedicated the honor to feminist collectives, to Jessica, and to all women killed by femicide, noting she accepted it with pain because the killings continue.
- CEDH president Marco Antonio Tinoco Álvarez said her efforts helped lead a judge to impose the maximum 50-year prison term on a femicide defendant for the first time in the state.
- Recent coverage cites a legal filing to Mexico's Supreme Court that, according to Villaseñor, prevented a reduction of Diego Urik Mañón Melgoza’s sentence.
- Villaseñor thanked civic groups, the state prosecutor’s office and supporters at the ceremony, where she was accompanied by her sons Adrián and Cristo and her husband.