Vannesa Rosales-Gautier (born 20 April 1989)[1] is a Venezuelan activist and teacher from Mérida state.
Rosales has worked as a school teacher and as an advocate for sexual and reproductive rights in the Mérida state.
After being accused of providing information and medication to a 13-year-old teenager for the voluntary interruption of her pregnancy, as the result of sexual assault, Rosales was arrested on 12 October 2020 and charged with the crimes of agavillamiento (conspiracy), association to commit a crime and abortion induced by a third party.
According to a statement issued by the NGO 100 % Estrogen, and signed by more than 200 associations, important judicial guarantees provided for in national legislation and international treaties had not been complied with in the criminal proceedings.
Her defense attorneys had not been able to have access to the formal accusation made by the Public Prosecutor's Office nor to his file.