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Archives and Human Rights in Argentina |
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This text brings together reflections on the importance of archives containing information on human rights violations, and on the role of government and the civil society organizations in the protection and promotion of these archival documents. This text is only available in spanish.
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A
space for dialogue |
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In this article, published
in the magazine Puentes
(May of 2004), we expose
the Memoria Abierta’s
proposal for the construction
of a Museum in the ESMA.
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City Memory: Monument, place and
urban situation -
Pablo Sztulwark |
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Pablo Sztulwark reflects
about the urban situations
that produce memory and
on the memory as complex
and indeterminate dialogue
between space and time.
The text was published in
the magazine Otra Mirada
Nº 4 (A.P.A, 2005).
This text is only available
in Spanish.
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Cultures,
memories and national traumas: Memorials
in Washington and Buenos Aires |
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In this text, published
originally in the Woodrow
Wilson International Center
for Scholars, Patricia Valdez
proposes some reflections
based on the observation
of two commemoration and
memory experiences of painful
and traumatic facts of the
past: the Vietnam Memorial
in Washington D.C. and the
Monument to the Victims
of the terrorism of State
project in Buenos Aires.
This text is only available
in Spanish.
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Memory of the struggle for freedom
- Dr. Horacio Ravenna |
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Because of the International Day of the
Disappeared, Horacio Ravenna - Co-VicePresident of the APDH (Permanent Assembly
for Human Rights)- wrote this text that talks about the working towards the recent approval of the project of Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance. This text is only available
in Spanish. |
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Read the text |
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Optimum
time for memory |
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In this text Patricia Valdez,
executive director of Memoria
Abierta, carries out an
exhaustive exploration of
the debates and events linked
to the search for Truth
and Justice and the construction
of social memory on State
terrorism in Argentina.
This text is only available
in Spanish.
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Reflections of Albie Sachs during
his visit to Memoria Abierta |
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Albie Sachs, member of the
Constitutional Tribunal
of South Africa and defender
of human rights, visited
the office of Memoria Abierta
in the year 2004 and shared
his impression on the different
initiatives that are being
developed in South Africa
to shed light on that which
occurred during apartheid
and to remember the victims.
These were his reflections.
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Reflections of Margarita Romero
during her visit to Memoria Abierta |
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Margarita Romero, Vice-President
of Corporación
Parque por la Paz Villa
Grimaldi, visit Memoria
Abierta and shared some
reflections about public
policies on human rights
in Chile. This text
is only available in Spanish.
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Report on the situation of human rights in Argentina (1980)
- IACHR |
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In September of 1979, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) visited Argentina. It was, actually, a mission to observe in answer to the received denounces. During the time the mission lasted, the Commission interviewed many personalities, public authorities, and members of civil society and human Rights
organizations. This text is only available
in Spanish.
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The
construction of Memoria Abierta’s
Oral Archive |
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Presentation given by the
team at Memoria Abierta
during the International
Congress of Oral History
that took place in Rome
the 26th-29th of June 2004.
This text is only available
in Spanish.
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The disturbing relation between places and memories - Hector Schmucler |
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The
museum that the Argentinean society
owes to itself |
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This article, wrote by Patricia
Valdez, was published on
the magazine Debate (02.13.04)
towards an imminent agreement
between the Buenos Aires
city government and the
National government to work
together towards the construction
of a “Space for Memory
and for the Promotion and
Defense of Human Rights”.
This text is only available
in Spanish.
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The Night of the Pencils and the times of memory - Sandra Raggio |
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To present and to promote
one of the present debates
around the collective memory,
Memoria Abierta gathered a fragment
of the testimony that Emilce
Moler (surviving at The
Night of the Pencils)
contributed to our Oral
Archive and a text of Sandra
Raggio titled "The
Night of the Pencils and the
times of memory". Both
resources invite to think
about the meanings involved
on the ways of relating the
recent history of our
country.
This text is only available
in Spanish.
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The
representation of traumatic
experiences through testimonial
archives and the reconstruction
of spaces of repression |
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Paper presented during the
International Meeting “Art:
representation of the memory
of terror” in the
panel “Does an ethic
for the representation of
terror exist?” that
took place on November 4th
of 2005. This text is
only available in Spanish.
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Truth
Commissions: an instrument of the
transition toward the democracy |
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In this work- prepared for
the Department of Political
Science of the National
University of Long Distance
Learning (UNED)- Patricia
Valdez approaches the topic
of the Truth Commission,
their social function, and
they’re contributions
in the search for justice
in Latin America. This
text is only available in
Spanish.
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Using
Inter-institutional cooperation
to facilitate access to information |
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The New
Tactics in Human Rights
project promotes strategic
thought. In this way, it
facilitates the development
of tools and networks to
share creative ideas and
foster tactical innovation.
In this context, Memoria
Abierta developed a resource
to familiarize people with
the institutional coordination
that we use to facilitate
access to information regarding
Argentina’s recent
past. |
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Which memories for which politics?
-
Alejandra Oberti and Roberto Pittaluga |
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An approach to the critical
revision of some exercises
of memory about the experience
of the armed left of the
70’s. This text
is only available in Spanish.
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Why
a Museum for Human Rights?: Memory |
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Exhibition of the Architect
Gonzalo Conte (Coordinator
of the Topography of Memory
Program- Memoria Abierta)
during the International
Seminar “A Museum
en Villa Grimaldi: A Space
for Memory and the Education
of Human Rights”.
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