“My body registered that the State persecutes me” The development of policies to guarantee the right to identity based on the case of Evelin Bauer Pegoraro

This article analyzes some policies developed to defend the right to identity in cases where the people involved do not wish to voluntarily deliver DNA samples. For this, the paper reconstructs the story of Evelin Bauer Pegoraro, a young woman appropriated in the last Argentine civic-military dictat...

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Main Authors: Sucari, Ana Laura, Lopes Murillo, Aline
Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Language:spa
Published: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología 2023
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/38901
https://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/175101
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Summary:This article analyzes some policies developed to defend the right to identity in cases where the people involved do not wish to voluntarily deliver DNA samples. For this, the paper reconstructs the story of Evelin Bauer Pegoraro, a young woman appropriated in the last Argentine civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983). From the analysis of this case and the problems faced by the civil association Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo to identify the appropriate persons in cases in which the identification requires the compulsive collection of DNA samples, we inquire about the elaboration of strategies and concrete demands to the State and the international community. The characteristics of Evelin’s history expose the complexity of the restitution processes, allowing us to investigate the alleged opposition of the right to identity and the right to privacy. In these terms, this article seeks to shed light on how the problems of a unique restitution process led to reformulate and demand new policies to guarantee the right to identity in Argentina.