Tag: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

• Monday, July 7th 2025 - 20:19 UTC

  Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find Grandson #140

  

  The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights organization announced Monday the finding of the 140th grandchild, born to people kidnapped and disappeared under Argentina's military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

• Saturday, December 28th 2024 - 09:17 UTC

  Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find 138th grandchild

  

  The social organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced Friday in Buenos Aires at the Casa por la Identidad, in the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos (formerly the ESMA clandestine detention center) “the happy finding of a new grandson, the 138th.”

• Saturday, July 29th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

  Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find Grandchild 133

  

  The organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Friday announced in Buenos Aires the finding of the 133rd grandchild taken during the military dictatorship (1976-1983). He is a nephew of Mario Roberto Santucho, founding leader of the guerrilla organization PRT-ERP, whose mother Cristina Navajas was kidnapped in 1976.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:52 UTC

  Lula's busy agenda in Buenos Aires

  

  After their bilateral encounter at Casa Rosada, Presidents Alberto Fernández of Argentina and Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva of Brazil met with representatives of human rights organizations, who insisted on getting together with the visiting leader, according to Fernández.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentina: New Plaza de Mayo grandson found within one week

  

  Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Wednesday announced that the 132nd grandson taken away from his blood family during Argentina's military dictatorship (1976-1983) had been found just 6 days after the discovery of Grandson # 131.

• Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina: Grandmothers of Plazza de Mayo find 131st grandchild

  

  The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Thursday announced they had found the 131st grandchild born from parents who disappeared under the military dictatorship (1976-1983).

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 22:37 UTC

  Founding member of Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers dies

  

  Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo founding member Delia Giovanola passed away Monday at the age of 96, it was announced in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo hope to find more missing grandchildren thanks to covid-19 vaccination pictures

  

  Argentine victims of disappearances and child abductions during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 are relying on vaccination efforts to help them find some of their 300 missing grandchildren.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina Forensic Anthropology Team nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

  

  The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, EAAF, a non-profit scientific NGO, was nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its investigative work into human rights violations in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

• Saturday, June 15th 2019 - 07:50 UTC

  Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo identify the 130th child of disappeared parents

  

  The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo released this week the identity of the son of a young couple disappeared while under arrest during the bloody Argentine 1976/1983 military dictatorship. Javier Matías Darroux Mijalchuk thus became the 130 child, now a full grown man, to have been identified by the human rights group.