Human Rights as a pillar of the federative strugle

The origin of the Federación Judicial Argentina (Argentinean Judicial Federation) dates from 1958 when representatives from the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Jujuy, Córdoba, San Luis, La Rioja, La Pampa and Mendoza, gathered in the city of Cordoba and set on the constitution of this organization. From that initial moment were incorporated, gradually, the other provinces of the country.

Since then, Argentinean Judicial Federation is committed to the struggle for democratization of justice, to build a “Justice for All” which respects, essentially, human rights. In that sense, it claims for respect for the rights of legal workers in particular and the labor movement in general.

Immersed in the daily commitment, our organization has been honored with the active participation of many fellow activists. At today's date, over twenty of them were missing by State terrorism led during military dictatorship that began in 1976. It is also remarkable that the Argentinean Judicial Federation was heightened by the continuing militancy of María Adela Gard de Antokoletz, one of the first Mothers of Plaza de Mayo - Founding Line, who died in 2002 and received in 2004 a tribute together with the 26 court employees arrested and disappeared during the military dictatorship.

Thus, as a way of continuing this commitment, the Federation takes as its own the idea proposed by Memoria Abierta to pay homage to our comrades by the placement of a sculpture in the Walk of Human Rights because it represents the constant invocation to Memory and “Never Again”. Given the relevance of this event, the FJA chose a democratic method to select the sculpture: it organized a public tender among the legal workers and the Central de los Trabajadores de la Argentina – CTA (Argentina´s Workers Central).