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Corporación de Memoria y Cultura Puchuncaví – Chile

Corporación de Memoria y Cultura Puchuncaví promotes a culture of human rights towards Chilean society, through the rescue and enhancement of the history and memory…

Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos y Mártires por la Liberación Nacional – Bolivia

Founded in 1983, the Association of Relatives of Missing Detainees and Martyrs for National Liberation (ASOFAMD) seeks to keep alive the memory of martyrs and…

Centro Cultural Museo y Memoria de NELTUME- Chile

Centro Cultural and Museo y Memoria de Neltume has 16 years of experience with their local community in Panguipulli, Chile. Its mission is to be…

Asociación Nacional de Familiares de Secuestrados, Detenidos y Desaparecidos del Perú – ANFASEP

The National Association of Relatives of Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared of Peru was established on September 2, 1983, to bring together people who had been…

Red Colombiana de Lugares de Memoria – RCLM

The Red Colombiana de Lugares de Memoria – RCLM is comprised of 28 places of memory located in different regions of Colombia, some of which…

Museo Memoria y Tolerancia (Museum of Memory and Tolerance)- Mexico

The Museum of Memory and Tolerance was founded in 2010 in Mexico City as a non-profit organization that is dedicated to disseminating the importance of…

Faro de la Memoria- Argentina

The Faro de la Memoria, or the Lighthouse of Memory, formerly called ESIM, was a clandestine detention center where people were tortured and killed by the armed…

Memorial da Lutas e Ligas Camponesas- Brazil

Memorial das Ligas e Lutas Camponesas (Memorial of Small Farmers Leagues and Struggles), an NGO is headquartered in the community of Barra de Antas, in the…

Estadio Nacional, Memoria Nacional – Chile

In the aftermath of the September 1973 coup d’état that overthrew the Government of Chilean President Salvador Allende, the National Stadium of Santiago (Estadio Nacional)…

Devoir de Mémoire (Haiti)

Devoir de Mémoire fights to transform sites of atrocities into sites of memory in Haiti, to demand justice for the crimes committed during the Duvalier dictatorship,…

Sociedad Civil Las Abejas (Mexico)

Sociedad Civil Las Abejas is an organized group fighting peacefully for their rights, and to defend their lands and territories. Its work is based on…

Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil)

Brazil is a country known worldwide for its cultural diversity. Native people from many nations, such as the Portuguese, Spanish, Flemish, Africans of different origins,…

Movimiento Ciudadano “Para que no se Repita” (Peru)

Movimiento Ciudadano Para Que No Se Repita (Never Again Citizens Movement) is a coalition of over 400 human rights organizations and community groups across Peru….

The Dirección de Verdad, Justicia y Reparación (Paraguay)

The Dirección de Verdad, Justicia y Reparación (Board of Truth, Justice and Reparation) is a subset of Paraguay’s Defensoría del Pueblo. This institution emerged from…

Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de los Movimientos Sociales (Mexico)

Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de los Movimientos Sociales (CIHMSAC) was established in May 2006 with the effort of activists, social science researchers, and individuals to…

Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (Mexico)

Founded in 1989 by Bishop Samuel Ruiz García of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las…

Casa Memoria José Domingo Cañas (Chile)

The José Domingo Cañas Foundation aims to promote the maintenance of collective memory regarding human rights, especially in the scope of education, culture, and society….

Asociación Caminos De La Memoria – El Ojo Que Llora (Peru)

Asociación Caminos de la Memoria is an organization of diverse individuals with a proven track record for human rights promotion in Peru. As part of…

Archivo de la Memoria de la Provincia de Córdoba (Argentina)

Located in Santa Catalina in the heart of the City of Cordoba, the Department of Information (D2) – the Intelligence Section of the Provincial Police…

Parque por la Paz – Villa Grimaldi (Chile)

Parque por la Paz (Park for Peace) Villa Grimaldi is located in the former Chilean dictatorship’s principle center for detention, torture, and extermination. It is now a…

Memorial Paine: Corporacia Paine, Un Lugar para la Memoria (Chile)

Paine is a rural county located to the south of Santiago in Chile. In 1973, during the Pinochet dictatorship, 70 members of the local community…

The Committee for Human Rights: NIDO 20 (Chile)

The Committee for Human Rights: NIDO 20 is dedicated to preserving the memory of the extensive human rights violations that took place during the dictatorship…

Museo de la Memoria – Rosario (Argentina)

The Memorial Museum was created in order to promote access to knowledge and research on the situation of human rights and social and political memory…

Memoria Abierta (Argentina)

Memoria Abierta, a collective of human rights organizations, works to raise social awareness and knowledge about state terrorism in order to enrich democratic culture. One…

Fundacion Zelmar Michelini

Fundacion Zelmar Michelini disseminates the work and thought of Zelmar Michelini, a Uruguayan human rights advocate, with the goal of promoting reflection on pluralism and fighting impunity. The…

Centro Cultural y Museo de la Memoria – MUME (Uruguay)

Centro Cultural y Museo de la Memoria is a space dedicated to the memory of state terrorism and the efforts of the Uruguayan people in…

Centro Cultural por la Memoria de Trelew (Argentina)

The Cultural Center for Memory in Trelew is located at the old airport of Trelew. In August 1972, during the military dictatorship of Gen. Alejandro…

Casa do Povo (Brazil)

Casa do Povo is the popular name of Instituto Cultural Israelita Brasileiro, a cultural center founded and historically run by left-oriented Jewish communities in São Paulo,…

Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana (Dominican Republic)

The Memorial Museum of the Dominican Resistance collects, organizes, preserves, researches, distributes, and displays the tangible and intangible heritage of the struggles of several generations…

Memorial ACTe (Guadeloupe)

In memory of those who were victims of the slave trade and slavery, Memorial ACTe is set on Guadeloupian soil, on the site of the…

Centro de Memoria, Paz y Reconciliación (Colombia)

Centro de Memoria, Paz y Reconciliación (Memory and Peace Center) seeks to materialize the commitment to honor the memory of victims of political violence from…

Asociación Paz y Esperanza (Peru)

Asociación Paz y Esperanza is a Christian non-profit association in Peru that works to promote social justice and the integral development of the indigent and…

Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo (Brazil)

El Memorial is housed at the former offices of the Department of Social and Political Order of São Paulo State, one of the most gruesome…

Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Chile)

The Museum of Memory and Human Rights offers a space for ethical reflection on the violations on human life and dignity committed by the State…

Asociación por la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos Colonia Dignidad (Chile)

Colonia Dignidad [Dignity Colony], now called Villa Baviera [Bavarian Village], is a piece of land in Parral, Chile inhabited by Germans since 1961. It is…

Memorial para la Concordia (Guatemala)

Memorial para la Concordia/Guatemala is a project that has been developed over two and a half years alongside the Historical Archive of the National Police….

Museo Casa de la Memoria (Colombia)

Casa de la Memoria Museum was created as an initiative of the Municipal Unit for Victim Attention and Reparation of Medellin, Colombia, in order to…

Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA (Argentina)

Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA is a former clandestine center for detention, torture and extermination; a historical site; and a material testimony to the human rights…

Cantos Cautivos

Cantos Cautivos (Captive Songs) is a digital archive that compiles memories of individual and collective musical experiences in centres for political detention and torture in…

Museo de las Memorias: Dictadura y Derechos Humanos (Paraguay)

The Museum of Memory operates in the building of the National Bureau of Technical Matters (1956 to 1992), a clandestine center for torture, executions, and…

Núcleo de Preservação da Memória Política (Brasil)

The Center for Preservation of Political Memory was first created as a working group of the Permanent Forum of Former Political Prisoners and Persecuted Persecuted…