The Government will launch a campaign in March that seeks to facilitate the reunion of people with their biological origin, Through a call to women who lost contact with their children, as a result of “some traumatic circumstance,” said the Secretary of Human Rights of La Nación, Horacio Pietragalla Corti.
The official explained that A team of professionals will participate in the launch of the initiative, made up of members of Conicet and of various organizations convened by the National Commission for the Right to Identity (Conadi), with the idea of ”summon mothers who at some point had some traumatic circumstance “that has distanced them from their children, beyond the period of the last civic-military dictatorship.
“We have many people in the genetic data bank looking for its biological origin Y we must raise awareness among mothers because, if not, we have no one to compare with “Pietragalla Corti explained in dialogue with Radio Nacional.
He stressed that, for that reason, a “massive campaign to raise awareness” will be launched in March and considered that The Genetic Data Bank must be “expanded” so that it is not “centralized” in the City of Buenos Aires.
The Secretary for Human Rights also warned that he became “aware” of many cases of theft of babies in the country “thanks to the struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.”
However, Pietragalla Corti warned, this is a problem that “transcends the periods of the dictatorship.”
On the other hand, the national official assured that His administration works “strongly” in the eradication of institutional violence and he opined that, for this objective, it is necessary to “carry out a transversal policy.”
“Today there is a law in Congress that we hope that next year will be dealt with by the entire political arc because it is necessary to take up this issue; there are kids who continue to lose their lives in the hands of untrained security forces,” he added.
