Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

The mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo enter the former [[Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics]] detention center. The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo () is a human rights organization with the goal of finding the children stolen and illegally adopted during the 1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship. The president is Estela Barnes de Carlotto.

The organization was founded in 1977 to locate children kidnapped during the repression, some of them born to mothers in prison who were later "disappeared", and to return the children to their surviving biological families. Around 30,000 people between the ages of 16 and 35 are believed to have disappeared; around 30% were women, and of those women, around 3% were pregnant. The work of the Grandmothers, assisted by United States geneticist Mary-Claire King, has led to the location of about 25 percent of the estimated 500 children kidnapped or born in detention centers. During the military era they were illegally adopted, with their original identities hidden.

By 1998 the identities of about 71 missing children had been documented. Of those, 56 were located alive and 7 others had died. The Grandmothers' work led to the creation of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and the establishment of the National Bank of Genetic Data. Aided by breakthroughs in genetic testing, the Grandmothers succeeded in returning 31 children to their biological families. In 13 other cases, adoptive and biological families agreed to jointly raise the children after they had been identified. The remaining cases are bogged down in court custody battles between families. As of December 2022, their efforts have resulted in finding 131 grandchildren.

The kidnapped babies were part of a systematic government plan during the "Dirty War" to pass the children for adoption by military families and allies of the regime and thereby avoid raising another generation of subversives. According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the junta feared that "the anguish generated in the rest of the surviving family because of the absence of the disappeared would develop, after a few years, into a new generation of subversive or potentially subversive elements, thereby not permitting an effective end to the Dirty War".

As an offshoot of the Silvia Quintela case, former dictator Jorge Videla was detained under house-arrest in 2010 on multiple charges of kidnapping children. In July 2012 he was convicted and sentenced to fifty years in prison for the systematic stealing of babies.

On 14 September 2011 the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo received the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize in Paris for their work in defense of Human Rights. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Niños Desaparecidos en la Argentina desde 1976 / by Abuelas De Plaza De Mayo

    Book
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    Niños Desaparecidos, Jóvenes Localizados, en la Argentina desde 1976 a1999 / by Abuelas De Plaza De Mayo

    Published 1999
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    Identidad : despojo y restitución / by Herrera, Matilde

    Published 2010
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Derecho a la identidad y persecución de crímenes de lesa humanidad /

    Published 2006
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Niños desaparecidos, jóvenes localizados. 1975-2015 /

    Published 2015
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    La pisada del unicornio relevamiento de literatura y canción popular de Córdoba, Argentina que frente a la dictadura militar fue resistencia, testimonio, militancia y memoria /

    Published 2006
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
    Electronic Software
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    La historia de abuelas. /

    Published 2022
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Las abuelas y la genética : el aporte de la ciencia en la búsqueda de los chicos desaparecidos. /

    Published 2008
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Juventud e identidad : 20 años de lucha de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. Tomo II /

    Published 2001
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
    Acceso en línea - Elibro
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    La historia de abuelas : 30 años de búsqueda. /

    Published 2007
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Niños desaparecidos y niños desaparecidos nacidos en cautiverio.

    Published 1990
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Derecho a la identidad y persecución de crímenes de lesa humanidad.

    Published 2006
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Violaciones a los derechos humanos frente a los derechos a la verdad e identidad /

    Published 2007
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    La historia de abuelas, 30 años de búsqueda. /

    Published 2007
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Niños desaparecidos: jóvenes localizados en la argentina de 1975 a 2007. /

    Published 2007
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Las abuelas y la genética : el aporte de la ciencia en la búsqueda de los chicos desaparecidos /

    Published 2009
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo : Fotografías de 30 años de lucha /

    Published 2007
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
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    Violaciones a los derechos humanos frente a los derechos a la verdad e identidad. /

    Published 2009
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
    Conference Proceeding Book
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    El porvenir de la memoria.

    Published 2005
    “…Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo…”
    Conference Proceeding Book