Enoé Uranga

{{Short description|Mexican politician}}

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| party = Party of the Democratic Revolution

| birth_date = 1 May 1963

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Enoé Margarita Uranga Muñoz (born May 1, 1963){{Cite web|url=http://sitl.diputados.gob.mx/LXI_leg/curricula.php?dipt=444|title=Dip. Enoé Margarita Uranga Muñoz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002847/http://sitl.diputados.gob.mx/LXI_leg/curricula.php?dipt=444|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=}} is a Mexican politician. She was elected to the 111th Congress from Federal District on the Party of the Democratic Revolution ticket. In Congress, Uranga is the Secretary of the Commission on Human Rights.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.globalgayz.com/central-america/mexico/mexico-grants-social-security-benefits-to-gay-couples/|title=Mexico grants social security benefits to gay couples|website=archive.globalgayz.com|access-date=2019-10-31}}

Uranga was the first female openly homosexual member of a state legislature in the country's history. She has also participated in the Mexican LGBT rights movement since the 1980s.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/2009/03/26/opinion/020a2pol|title=La Jornada: Enoé Uranga candidata|last=C.V|first=DEMOS, Desarrollo de Medios, S. A. de|date=2009-03-26|website=www.jornada.com.mx|language=es-MX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725063433/https://www.jornada.com.mx/2009/03/26/opinion/020a2pol|archive-date=25 July 2018|url-status=|access-date=2019-07-12}}

Career

Uranga is a graduate of the Free University of Berlin and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

From 2000 to 2003, she served as president of the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District Legislative Assembly.

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