Purdue University Press", article, "Textual Strategies to Resist Disappearance and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo", 2007. Accessed: May 4, 2015. a b c d e f g Bellucci, Mabel (1999). "Childless Motherhood: Interview with Nora Cortiñas, a Mother of the Plaza De Mayo, Argentina". Reproductive Health Matters. 7 (13): 83–88. doi: 10.1016/s0968-8080(99)90116-7. Testimonio de Mirta Acuña de Baravalle / 09 de mayo 2012". Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno (in Spanish). 9 May 2012 . Retrieved 11 February 2020. Mariela Belski, Amnesty International’s executive director in Argentina, called the result “an inspiration to the Americas”. They found a powerful ally in Mary-Claire King, an American geneticist who began working with them in 1984. King and her colleagues developed a way to use the grandmothers’ mitochondrial DNA, which is passed on through mothers, to help match them with their grandchildren. The technique has led to controversies, as when it was used on the reluctant adoptees of a powerful media magnate who were forced to give over their blood for testing. But it has also led to the creation of a national genetic database. To date, the organization has confirmed the identities of 128 stolen children, largely using the database and DNA identification techniques.

Argentina is not a good place to be doing this kind of work,” says Elizabeth Gleeson, an American who founded an Argentinian artisan brand, Ursa Textiles, in 2015. Since September 2020, the green scarf was also the icon of the Causa Justa Movement in Colombia. This movement filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court of that country to eliminate abortion from the penal code. The lawsuit was decided in February 2022 and succeeded in eliminating the crime of abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation. [11]Among the desaparecidos were children born to pregnant women who were kept alive long enough to give birth to their babies, then murdered. Five hundred of those children, and others seized from their parents during the Dirty War, are thought to have been given to other families.

The Mothers began demonstrating in the Plaza de Mayo, the public square located in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace, in the city of Buenos Aires, on 30 April 1977, to petition for the alive reappearance of their disappeared children. Originally, they would remain there seated, but by declaring a state of emergency, police expelled them from the public square. a b c d e Shepherd, Laura J. (2015). Gender matters in global politics: a feminist introduction to international relations (2ed.). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. pp.29–31. a b "Les quitan a las madres el manejo del plan de viviendas". La Nación. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. comisionjuiciocampodemayo.wordpress.com", article, "Listado de condenados por delitos de lesa humanidad", March 19, 2012. Accessed: February 7, 2018. In 2018, Craftsmanship Magazine dove into how regenerative sheep farming in California can protect an ecosystem, and Patagonia (the apparel brand) is encouraging its suppliers in Argentina to follow that route. But unless most sheep ranches in Patagonia (the place) commit to regenerative farming, the land—and the guanacos—could be threatened yet again by this latest wool bonanza. Ursa Textiles founder Elizabeth Gleeson has a much easier time producing and exporting artisan textiles from Bolivia than from Argentina. Yet, she likes working with the artisans living in the slums of Buenos Aires, many of whom are highly talented. Photo by Marina Zambrano.

In an episode of Destinos set in Argentina, protagonist Raquel is told about the Mothers of the Plaza and sees a portion of a march.

a b Bosco, Fernando J. (2006). "The Madres De Plaza De Mayo and Three Decades of Human Rights' Activism: Embeddedness, Emotions, and Social Movements". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 96 (2): 342–65. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00481.x. S2CID 145446463.

The government then conducted a national commission to collect testimony about the "disappeared", hearing from hundreds of witnesses. In 1985, it began the prosecution of men indicted for crimes, beginning with the Trial of the Juntas, in which several high-ranking military officers were convicted and sentenced. The green scarf bears the legend " Sex education to decide, contraceptives to avoid abortion, legal abortion to avoid death". [4] Popularization [ edit ] Pañuelazo for the right to legal, safe and free abortion in Santa Fe, 2018 Krause, Wanda C. (2004). "The Role and Example of Chilean and Argentinian Mothers in Democratisation". Development in Practice. 14 (3): 366–380. doi: 10.1080/0961452042000191204. S2CID 144459929.

One reason you’ve never heard of guanacos is that 85 percent of them live in Argentina, whose tangled economic policies seem designed to ensure that you’ll never have an opportunity to buy a guanaco wool sweater in your lifetime. It took until 2005 and DNA identification for many of the mass graves and human remains to be exhumed and cremated or buried; Azucena's ashes were interred in the Plaza de Mayo itself. [1] Alternative pañuelos hanging in an activist’s house, Cuzco, Peru, September 2019 (Photo: author’s own) Aldo Marchesi: Old Ideas in New Discourses". Ssrc.org. 26 November 2001. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009 . Retrieved 1 March 2012. As the number of disappeared grew, the movement grew, and the Mothers were getting international attention. They began to try to build pressure from outside governments against the Argentine dictatorship, by sharing the many stories of the "disappeared".Alvaro Taype-Rondan and Nicolaz Merino-Garcia, ‘Hospitalizaciones y muertes por aborto clandestino en Perú: ¿Qué dicen los números?’, Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública 33, no. 4 (13 December 2016): 829–30, https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2016.334.2573. The association at one time managed a federally funded housing program, Sueños Compartidos ("Shared Dreams"), which it founded in 2008. [27] By 2011, Sueños Compartidos had completed 5,600 housing units earmarked for slum residents, and numerous other facilities in six provinces and the city of Buenos Aires. [28] [29] Whether the artisans can thrive despite Argentina’s economy, which is struggling to recover from a 3-year recession, is another question. “If you cannot give them really stable work and commit to buy every month…the mining companies can tempt the artisans away,” Marina says. She has already watched two cooperatives she was working with disappear—one when the organizer was offered a government job, another when its disabled female weavers were told their government benefits would be taken away. Former President Macri turned the country decidedly away from left-wing populist policies toward austerity, and the populace is growing frustrated that the promised economic expansion has not yet arrived—only inflation and high fuel prices. Unable to increase its prices enough to cover rising costs, A rgentina’s textile indust ry is on the verge of collapse. In most countries, such as Brazil, abortions are only permitted in extremely limited circumstances such as rape or risk to the mother’s life, while in some, such as the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, they are banned altogether. The green scarf, as a symbol, was born in 2003 during the XVIII National Meeting of Women in Rosario, Argentina. [1] [2] [3] For the first time, the right to abortion was one of the main demands [1] [2] [3] and green scarves were used during the closing march. [3]