Mònica Bernabé Fernández (born December 1972) is a Spanish journalist known for her work as a correspondent in Afghanistan, where she lived for nearly eight years.

Mònica Bernabé studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

In 2000, after her first trip to Afghanistan and Peshawar, she founded the Association for Human Rights in Afghanistan (Asociación por los Derechos Humanos en Afganistán; ASDHA), an NGO that supports Afghan women.

Over seven years, she traveled to Afghanistan every year, until mid-2007 when she settled there, corresponding for various media outlets, including the newspaper El Mundo, Radio Nacional de España (RNE), Ràdio Associació de Catalunya 1 (RAC 1), Canal Sur, and the Spanish service of Deutsche Welle.

In 2015 she moved to Rome to take over as correspondent for El Mundo in the Italian capital.