Members of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo association, the Hijos group and the Center for Legal and Social Studies, among others, will participate in an open talk about the value of international commitments to combat forced disappearances and the challenges of human rights organizations.

The event will take place at the former Navy Mechanics School, where one of the hundreds of clandestine detention and torture centers operated during the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983).

Later, at 3:00 p.m., a discussion about the date will be held at the Institute of Public Policies on Human Rights of the Southern Common Market and short films and documentaries related to it will be screened.

The Victims’ Day has been celebrated since 2010 by decision of the United Nations General Assembly, and its objective is to “honor the memory of the disappeared and demand the right to truth and justice.”

Argentina lived the darkest moments in its history after the 1976 coup d’état against the government of María Estela Martínez de Perón under a dictatorship that caused the disappearance, kidnapping, torture and murder of more than 30 thousand citizens until 1983.

In recent days, numerous organizations denounced the vindication of the regime by the Government of La Libertad Avanza, the visit of party legislators to convicted genocide killers and the preparation of bills to free the criminals. In addition, they condemned the intervention of the University of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the elimination of a special unit to search for children taken from their families and the dismantling of the policies of memory, truth and justice.

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