Carmen Hertz | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2018 | |
| Constituency | District 8 |
| Ambassador of Chile to Hungary | |
| In office 2006–2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Carmen Hertz Cádiz 19 June 1945 Santiago, Chile |
| Political party | Communist Party |
| Children | Germán Berger Hertz |
| Alma mater | University of Chile |
| Occupation | Lawyer, politician |
Carmen Hertz Cádiz (born 19 June 1945) is a Chilean Communist Party politician and lawyer who participated in various institutions for the protection of human rights that arose as a result of the systematic violations committed during the dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990. She worked with the Vicariate of Solidarity, the Social Aid Foundation of Christian Churches (FASIC), the National Corporation for Reparation and Reconciliation, and the Ministry of the Interior's Human Rights Program. She became the human rights director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after Chile's transition to democracy, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2018.