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This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue III, March 2025

Argentina report

Archives and Human Rights activities

Archivos en Vigilia

Wikimedia Argentina and Archivo Histórico de Universidad de La Plata, in collaboration with Wikimedia Brasil and Wikimedia Mexico, launched for the 5th consecutive year "Archivos en Vigilia" activity. This initiative reaffirms the political and cultural value of archives in society and their key role in safeguarding human rights.

During the month of March, professionals, researchers, and activists participated in panels, discussions, and workshops about open access to information and the release of documents related to dictatorships in Argentina and Latin America. Afterwards, they received personalized technical and policy support until March 23, the date on which all the documents were finally released under open licencies.

The total number of files uploaded in this edition is 283, totaling 545 documents, including administrative records such as files, resolutions, and judgments; photographs of current archives and memorial spaces; and photographs from 1960 to 1980 in Argentina.

As regards regional participation, Wikimedia Brazil, in partnership with the National Archives of Brazil, shared a collection of approximately 232 documents related to the period of the Brazilian dictatorship: the BR DFANSBS IE collection of the Center for Foreign Information (CIEX), covering the years 1966 to 1985. The CIEX was an intelligence service linked to the National Information Service, whose existence was only confirmed in 2007. Wikimedia Mexico, through one of their partners, shared 107 documents that were used by the Mexican government in the investigations of the Historical Clarification Mechanism (MEH) of the Truth Commission, and in the preparation of the report "Fue el Estado 1965-1990." This report focused on 11 groups of victims of serious human rights violations, including the case of José Francisco Rivera Carvajal and the Tecla Parra family, which were uploaded via Archivos en Vigilia campaign.

We thank a lot our regional partners as well as the local ones who made this possible: Archivo Histórico from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (directed by Laura Casareto, who co-organizes this activity), Archivo Histórico from Liceo V. Mercante Zulma Totis, Historical Documental Heritage area from Colegio Nacional, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Espacio de Memoria "Escuelita de Famailla" and Shailili Zamora Aray (who shared pictures taken inside the Casa de la Memoria in Sáenz Peña, Chaco).

We invite you to spread the word through this video, so more and more people can be part of Archivos en Vigilia next year!

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