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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 12:17 UTC

Tag: Nora Cortiñas - Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Mothers of Plaza de Mayo leader Nora Cortiñas dies aged 94

    Cortiñas also supported the identification of Argentine combatants fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic war, among other causes

    Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (Founding Line) President Nora Cortiñas died Thursday in Morón, on the western outskirts of Buenos Aires, from complications resulting from a hernia surgery she had undergone days earlier. The iconic human rights activist was 94.

  • Monday, March 20th 2017 - 07:38 UTC

    Malvinas Families repudiate Peace Nobel Perez Esquivel on his return from Falklands

    Malvinas Families strongly protested at Aeroparque arguing “this travelling party does not represent us” and accused them of wanting to politicize the Malvinas issue

    Argentine Veterans and relatives of fallen in Malvinas had a surprise for Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Perez Esquivel and his party of fourteen, including a founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, when they landed in Buenos Aires airport after spending a week in the Falkland Islands where they travelled with a “peace, dialogue and sovereignty” message to the Islanders.

  • Saturday, March 11th 2017 - 07:09 UTC

    Argentine Nobel Peace wants to dialogue with “Malvinas inhabitants”, ruled by a “colonial government”

    Before leaving for Rio Gallegos Peace Nobel Perez Esquivel said he favored opening a dialogue with the “inhabitants of Malvinas”

    An Argentine delegation linked to human rights groups is en route to the Falkland Islands with a “message of dialogue, peace and demilitarization”, hoping to meet Islanders, express support for the identification process of unknown combatants buried in Darwin cemetery, collect evidence on abuses committed by Argentine officers during the 1982 conflict, but also claim sovereignty and reject “militarization” of the Islands.

  • Friday, March 10th 2017 - 06:23 UTC

    Argentine delegation reminded Falkland Islanders have rights

    Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

    A remainder of the rights of Falkland Islanders has been included in an open letter from the Falklands Government to a delegation of Argentines due to arrive Saturday. They are part of the Comisión Provincial de la Memoria CPM, an independent non-governmental organization.

  • Wednesday, March 1st 2017 - 13:26 UTC

    Falklands: Argentine human rights/political delegation to the Islands with a message of peace and dialogue

    The delegation includes Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 1980 Peace Nobel Prize

    At least fourteen human rights, social, religious and political leaders from Argentina are planning to travel to the Falkland Islands in mid March hoping to meet Islanders with a message of peace and dialogue. The delegation includes Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 1980 Peace Nobel Prize, Nora Cortiñas, founder of one of the several branches in which the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo are split, and members of the Memory Commission, according to reports from Buenos Aires.