Monday, April 25, 2011 - 10:30am to 11:45am
Location:
Pro-Busqueda - Searching for a Disappeared Child, with Ester Alvarenga Chinchilla, executive director of Asociación Pro-Busqueda de Niños y Niñas Desaparecidos in El Salvador, and Ana C. Deutsch, MFT, clinical director, Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles.
Pro-Busqueda is an association in the human rights movement that carries out the search for children who disappeared as a result of the armed conflict in El Salvador, that promotes their rights, the awareness of the truth, access to justice, to complete reparations for disappeared people and their families.
Jon Cortina, a Jesuit priest from Vasco Country, Spain, who lived most of his life in El Salvador, founded Pro-Busqueda in 1994. He was particularly affected by mothers' and fathers' histories that had suffered the forced disappearance of their children and the lack of answers from the Salvadoran State. The pain of these women and men sowed the seed of Pro-Busqueda.
Sponsored by Central American Studies, Central American Research and Policy Institute (CARPI), and Central American United Student Association (CAUSA).