What activist is the president of a human rights organization with the goal of finding the children stolen during the Argentine Dirty War?
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Estela de Carlotto Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto (Buenos Aires, born October 22, 1930) is an Argentine human rights activist and president of the association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. One of her daughters, Laura Estela Carlotto, was kidnapped and missing while pregnant in Buenos Aires, in late 1977. Through stories, she could ascertain that her daughter had given birth to a boy, and that her grandson was appropriated and his identity changed. She searched for him for nearly 36 years, until, on August 5, 2014, after a DNA check voluntarily made by the person concerned, her grandson was identified, and became the 114th in the list of recovered grandchildren.
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Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Spanish: "Asociación Civil Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo" ) is a human rights organization with the goal of finding the children stolen and illegally adopted during the Argentine Dirty War. Its president is Estela Barnes de Carlotto.
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Juliana Awada Juliana Awada (] ; born 3 April 1974) (Arabic: جوليانا عواضة) is an Argentine businesswoman of Lebanese and Syrian descent. She is the current First Lady of Argentina, married to the 53rd President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri.
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Narges Mohammadi Narges Mohammadi (Persian: نرگس محمدی‎ ‎ ; born 21 April 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi.
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Human rights in Argentina The history of human rights in Argentina is affected by the Dirty War and its aftermath.
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Operation Emmanuel Operation Emmanuel (Spanish: "Operación Emmanuel" ) was a humanitarian operation that rescued politician Clara Rojas, her son Emmanuel (born in captivity), and former senator Consuelo González from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Colombia. The operation was proposed and set up by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, with the permission of the Colombian government of Álvaro Uribe. Chávez's plan was supported by the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and France, as well as the Red Cross, which also participated in the operation. Venezuelan aircraft were flown to an airport in the Colombian town of Villavicencio, were resupplied, and from there flew to the secret rescue point set up by the FARC. On December 26, 2007, through the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Colombian government approved the mission, only requesting that the aircraft used for the operations were labelled with Red Cross insignias.
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Public image of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was the president of Argentina between 2007 and 2015.
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Alex Pacheco (activist) Alexander Fernando Pacheco (born August 1958) is an American animal rights activist. He is founder of 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You, co-founder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and a member of the advisory board of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
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Drago Pilsel Drago Carlos Pilsel (born 21 September 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine Croatian journalist and human rights activist.
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Youth without Borders Youth Without Borders is a social project organized by students of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile that was born in 2003. The project organizes volunteer summer and winter works for students of all the university's programs. Its final goal is raising awareness and social responsibility in participating students.
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Sebastián Casanello Sebastián Casanello (14 December 1974) is an Argentine judge. He works with the case known as the K money trail.
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Pocho Lepratti Claudio Hugo Lepratti (27 February 196619 December 2001), popularly known as "Pocho" Lepratti, was an Argentine political activist volunteer who worked in a poor neighbourhood in the city of Rosario (province of Santa Fe, Argentina), and who was shot and killed by the Santa Fe Provincial Police during the December 2001 riots, when he tried to stop police agents from firing at a children's school.
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Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet General Augusto Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in his native Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón on 10 October 1998. He was arrested in London six days later and held for a year and a half before finally being released by the British government in March 2000. Authorized to freely return to Chile, Pinochet was there first indicted by judge Juan Guzmán Tapia, and charged with a number of crimes, before dying on 10 December 2006, without having been convicted in any case. His arrest in London made the front-page of newspapers worldwide as not only did it involve the head of the military dictatorship that ruled Chile between 1973 and 1990, but it was the first time that several European judges applied the principle of universal jurisdiction, declaring themselves competent to judge crimes committed by former heads of state, despite local amnesty laws.
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&quot;Ibrahim Kodra&quot; Foundation "Ibrahim Kodra" Foundation, Italian: "Fondazione "Ibrahim Kodra"" , full name ""Ibrahim Kodra" Foundation for the world's kids" (Italian: "Fondazione per i Ragazzi del mondo di Ibrahim Kodra" ), is a cultural and humanitarian organization founded in Lugano, Switzerland. It is currently named after the well-known artist Ibrahim Kodra.
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Child Workers in Nepal Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) working as an advocate for children's rights, and supporting child labourers, street children, children being exploited sexually, and child victims of violence. Its objective is to protect the rights of children in Nepal. It was established in 1987, when an informal group of students at Tribhuvan University, taking a lead from Child Workers in Asia (CWA), investigated the conditions of street children in Kathmandu. As a watchdog in the field of child rights in Nepal, CWIN acts as a voice for disadvantaged and exploited children, through lobbying, campaigning and pressuring the government to protect and promote children's rights, and to end exploitation, abuse and discrimination against children.
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Consuelo Morales Elizondo Consuelo Gloria Morales Elizondo (born March 1948) is a Mexican human rights activist, founder and director of the organization Ciudadanos en Apoyo a los Derechos Humanos, A.C. (CADHAC), known in English as "Citizens in Support of Human Rights".
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (] ; born 19 February 1953), sometimes referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. She was the second woman to serve as President of Argentina, the first directly elected female president, and the first woman re-elected to the office. Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, she was a member of the Justicialist Party, with her political approach being characterised as Kirchnerism.
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Peter Dahlin Peter Dahlin is a Swedish human rights activist who was the subject of international media attention after being arrested in China on January 4, 2016 in connection with his work for the NGO Chinese Urgent Action Working Group.
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Arturo Alonso Arturo Alonso (born 18 September 1972 in Granada, Spain) is a Spanish human rights activist.
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Oscar Soria Oscar Soria (born 1974) is an Argentinian political activist, social journalist, and environmental and human rights campaigner, currently serving as senior campaigner in the international activist group Avaaz. Previously he was the global brand director of Greenpeace and afterwards the media director of WWF.
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Peronism Peronism (Spanish: "Peronismo" ) or Justicialism ("Justicialismo") is an Argentinian political movement based on the political ideology and legacy of former President Juan Domingo Perón and his second wife, Eva Perón. The Justicialist Party ("Partido Justicialista") derives its name from the concept of social justice (Spanish: "justicia social" ).
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Casitas del Sur case The Casitas del Sur case refers to the disappearance of several minors from children's refuges operated by the religious organization Iglesia Cristiana Restaurada (Restored Christian Church).