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Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ ou Service Peace and Justice) is an Human Rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

Non Governmental Organisation in Latin America

Latin America

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, founded in 1974. It is a Christian based and nonviolent organization, and is committed for the defense of political prisoners in the different South American dictatures

Dictatorship

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during the Dirty War

Dirty War

The Dirty War was a period of state-sponsored violence in Argentina from 1976 until 1983. Victims of the violence included several thousand left-wing activists, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers, either proved or suspected...

in the 1970-80s.

Affiliations of the SERPAJ

The SERPAJ has a consultativ status in the United Nations Economic and Social Council

United Nations Economic and Social Council

The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations constitutes one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and it is responsible for the coordination of the economic, social and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, its functional commissions and five regional commissions...

and in UNESCO

UNESCO

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, receiving in 1987 the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education

UNESCO Prize for Peace Education

The UNESCO Prize for Peace Education has been awarded annually since 1981.The prize is endowed up to 60 000 US dollars and honours extraordinary activities in the spirit of the UNESCO constitution.-Recipients of the Prize by year:...

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It is member of the Ligue internationale pour les droits et la libération des peuples and observer member of the International Coalition for the Decade

International Coalition for the Decade

On 10 November 1998, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first decade of the 21st century and the third millennium, the years 2001 to 2010, as the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World.Since 2001, some national...

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The SERPAJ is also member of the Network Memoria Abierta, created in 1999 and to which belongs the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) of Horacio Verbitsky

Horacio Verbitsky

Horacio Verbitsky is a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and author. He writes for the left-leaning Argentine newspaper Página/12 and heads up the Center for Legal and Social Studies , an Argentine human-rights organization.He is also a member of the Directive Board of Human Rights...

Personalities of the SERPAJ

One of the founders and the first coordinator of the SERPAJ was the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine sculptor, architect and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize.-Biography:Pérez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires to a Spanish fisherman who emigrated to Argentina...

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The Partido Socialista del Uruguay lawyer Azucena Berruti

Azucena Berruti

Azucena Berrutti , a famous lawyer and Uruguayan politician, she was the National Defence Minister, appointed by the Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez, from March 2005 until March 2008.-Appointment as Defence Minister, 2005:...

has been a member of the SERPAJ-Uruguay, and minister of Defense of the Tabaré Vázquez

Tabaré Vázquez

Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas is a former President of Uruguay. A physician by training, he is a member of the leftist Frente Amplo coalition . Vázquez was elected president on October 31, 2004, took office on March 1, 2005, and relinquished the office on March 1, 2010...

government (2005-2008).

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