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Families seek justice for their beloved "desaparecidos"

Families
Advocacy / Central Tracing Agency (CTA) / Family Needs / Human Rights / Memorialization / Protecting/Restoring Family Links / Right to Know/Truth

Their call for solidarity should resound across every corner of the globe on this International Day of the Disappeared.

30 Aug 2023
The Americas
UCA News

In March this year, I visited Argentina, a nation haunted by a grim history of enforced disappearances that unfolded during the military dictatorship era in the 1970s.

Leading the former executive committee of the International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED), I participated in the Third World Forum for Human Rights attended by 10,000 civil society organizations across the globe.

As a side endeavor, we paid a solemn visit to the Parque de la Memoria, where a massive wall bears the names of 30,000 victims of enforced disappearances. Adjacent to this wall of remembrance, a heartbreaking testament to cruelty, pregnant women were callously thrown from helicopters into the ocean, their fates forever sealed in the depths.