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Admirers bid farewell to Taty Almeida, symbol of nation's human rights struggle

15-06-2026 19:35 Argentines on Monday bid farewell to Taty Almeida, president of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora organisation and a symbol of the tireless search for the disappeared.

Taty Almeida and the struggle for memory in the Milei era

15-06-2026 16:41 Historic leader of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora became one of the most impassioned voices in Argentina to rail against denialism and formed a bridge carrying the banner of memory and the white headscarf to new generations.

by Gabriella Danieri, Perfil

Amnesty warns of ‘predatory’ world order as leaders fuel crisis

21-04-2026 11:39 Human rights group says global protection system built over last 80 years faces potential collapse as governments fail to act against abuses; Amnesty's chief warns Trump, Putin and Netanyahu are "predators" and must not be appeased.

Human Capital Ministry counts 9,421 people living on streets across 19 provinces

17-04-2026 13:44 Study by Human Capital Ministry says homelessness mainly affects people in informal work, with partial incomes, fractured family ties and health or substance abuse problems.

Kast's Chile axes plans to give papers to almost 200,000 migrants

30-03-2026 11:55 President José Antonio Kast's government also announces it will reverse expropriation of Pinochet-era torture centre.

Completing memory

28-03-2026 05:55 It should be well within the means of libertarians (at all odds with dictatorship in theory at least) to challenge the denialist tag often placed on them and one wonders why they do not make more effort to do so.

by Michael Soltys

Milei government calls for ‘complete history’ of dictatorship era in video

24-03-2026 09:38 La Libertad Avanza restates its position on the 50th anniversary of Argentina’s 1976 coup, highlighting left-wing violence; Seventy-five minute video features interview with recovered granddaughter and son of a former soldier kidnapped by guerrillas.

Argentina remembers painful legacy of dictatorship as Milei challenges narrative

24-03-2026 08:54 Human rights groups to lead commemorations as Milei government questions long-standing narratives about dictatorship's crimes; Political battle grows over how nation remembers military regime and victims.

Videla’s confession: Reconstructing the dictatorship

22-03-2026 00:01 Published in 2012, 'Disposición Final' features an extended interview with military junta leader and former de facto president Jorge Rafael Videla. To mark the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état that brought him to power, we run a translated extract from Ceferino Reato’s historic non-fiction book.

by Ceferino Reato

Trials into crimes against humanity press on amid political tensions

21-03-2026 00:09 Thousands investigated, hundreds convicted, but ageing suspects, slow courts and political pressure threaten progress. As the 50th anniversary of coup d’état draws nears, government criticism raises concerns over accountability for crimes against humanity.

by James Grainger

Human rights office could be moved from ex-ESMA on eve of 50th coup anniversary

25-02-2026 16:11 President Javier Milei’s government analysing moving Argentina’s Human Rights Department from ex-ESMA clandestine detention centre to offices of now defunct Women, Gender and Diversity Ministry; Move would take place in the same month as the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup, according to reports.

More than 200 political prisoners in Venezuela launch hunger strike

22-02-2026 22:59 More than 200 Venezuelan political prisoners go on hunger strike to demand their release under a new amnesty law that excludes many of them.

Venezuelan interim president announces mass amnesty push

31-01-2026 09:03 Delcy Rodríguez says said she will propose a "general amnesty law covering the entire period of political violence from 1999 to the present."

‘I fear for my life’ – Video released of Argentine lawyer detained in Venezuela

26-01-2026 08:08 Argentine lawyer Germán Giuliani seen in a video recorded from his prison cell; 49-year-old denies allegations against him and appeals for intervention from Milei government and international human rights bodies.

Sending silence to oblivion

22-12-2025 17:35 'Tiempos Circulares' (2025); Directed by Andrés Dunayevich; Documentary; 78 minutes.

by Michael Soltys

Milei's top human rights official quits post

04-12-2025 17:21 Conflicting accounts as Human Rights Secretary Alberto Baños resigns post; Official had been appointed to the position by Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona.

Argentines march for LGBTQ pride, against government-fuelled 'hate'

02-11-2025 09:00 Streets surrounding Congress fill with colour, music and rejection of Javier Milei's government policies as revellers celebrate 34th edition of the LGBTIQ+ Pride March 2025.

Film legend Jane Fonda to promote human rights doc ‘Norita’ in Los Angeles

24-10-2025 10:42 Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda to present screening of documentary detailing life of Madres de Plaza de Mayo co-founder and human rights icon Nora Cortiñas at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

Rights campaigner Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit dies aged 106

07-09-2025 09:40 Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo honorary president dies at 106; Tireless campaigner's activism inspired by her disappeared daughter and grandson, with whom she was reunited in 2000.

Milei government admits its audit of soup kitchens never existed

06-09-2025 10:22 Milei government acknowledges in an official document that it lied: audit that found that 50% percent of community kitchens were ‘phantom’ in fact never existed. Admission was made in response to request by deputy Natalia Zaracho.