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Grandmothers Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

5:57 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Argentina|Justice|Latin America|society

13 May 2008

Abuelas_Plaza_Mayo.jpgLas Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, an Argentine activist group fighting for justice in the disappearance cases of hundreds of Argentine citizens — many children and pregnant women — during the country’s “Dirty War” have been nominated for a 2008 Nobel Peace Prize

…for their fight to give restore the identity of some 500 children stolen during the last dictatorship, in an act before congress.

Estella Carlotto, president of the organization, in a speech about the candidacy, said: “We are regular women among the thousands of Argentine women who do not back down in desperate situations…Each grandchild we get back is like a Nobel Prize.”

The last Nobel Peace Prize for Argentina was in 1980, for activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

Via / El Universal

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