“Argentina is in a position to give him citizenship, but applicants have to request it”.
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UNICEF study: 66% of Argentine children face financial or human rights deprivation
Nine in ten children living in poverty have at least one employed parent
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Legislator whose parents were disappeared by dictatorship finds family’s old home
The former home of Victoria Montenegro, who was kidnapped and raised by a military family, will be signaled as memory site
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Human rights activists speak against Supreme Court president in Impeachment Commission
Three human rights representatives – Norita Cortiñas, mother of Plaza de Mayo; Pablo Llonto, lawyer of human rights organizations in the crimes against humanity trials; and Patricia Isasa, dictatorship survivor and human rights activist – spoke in Thursday’s hearing in the Lower House on the Impeachment Commission, after …
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Boca Juniors names Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo leader Estela de Carlotto an Honorary Member
The president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, was honored on Tuesday as an Honorary Member of the Boca Juniors football team, in a ceremony she attended at the “Bombonera” stadium in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. “Today is an exceptional day for …
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German police raid home of dictatorship torturer who used dual nationality to flee justice
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office and the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office this morning searched the living quarters of a 75-year-old former official of the Argentine military on charges of murder committed during the last dictatorship. Luis Kyburg is said to have played a key role in the “death …
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Peru protests: Amnesty to investigate “possible crimes under international law”
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has sent a crisis team to Peru to investigate “serious human rights violations and possible crimes under international law”, in the context of the deadly protests that have rocked the country since December, it announced Monday. “Our team will investigate human rights violations, …
At least 67 journalists and media workers were killed in 2022, the most since 2018, according to a report by press freedom nonprofit, the Committee to Protect Journalists. More than half of the 67 killings happened in just three countries –Ukraine (15), Mexico (13), and Haiti (7). Out …
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Thousands march on Peru’s capital as unrest spreads, building set ablaze
Thousands of protesters in Peru, many from the country’s heavily indigenous south, descended on Lima, the capital, on Thursday, angered by a mounting death toll since unrest erupted last month and calling for sweeping change. Police estimated the march at around 3,500 people, but others speculated it attracted …