Violated Rights, Censured Memories: Histories of ViolatedHuman Rights in Brazil and in the Southern Cone

This research aims to analyse the contents of Fundo Clamor, located at the Documentation and ScientificInformation Centre―CEDIC, from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo—SP, between the years of 1970and 1992, as well as its contribution to the process of rescuing historical memory of child and teenager abduction,imprisonment, and torture in the course of military dictatorships in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Themethodology used in this descriptive and qualitative research intends to take two directions: a bibliographical and adescriptive analytic documental research. Through the consultation and analysis of documents from Fundo Clamor(correspondence, denunciations, bulletins, and leaflets from Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, reports, writs of habeascorpus, pieces of reportage, and files from clandestine detention centres and on enforced disappearances), acompilation will be made with information regarding the disappearance of children and the imprisonment and/orabduction of pregnant militants in an attempt to describe the situation of apprehension and incarceration, thehistorical context, and the repression forces involved in the operation of arrest, kidnapping and/or torture ofmilitants, children, and teenagers. Besides this heritage, a documental research will be made at Terror Archives, theCentre for Documentation and Archives for the Defence of Human Rights (CDyA) of Paraguay Supreme JusticeCourt, which contains a register of Alfredo Stroessner’s thirty-five-year-long military dictatorship in Paraguay. Themain argument in this research states that the archives from the Committee for the Defence of Refugees HumanRights from the Southern Cone, available at Fundo Clamor, contribute significantly to the rescue of historicalmemory from the dictatorial period and to the achievement of complete citizenship in these countries, consideringthat Brazil was the protagonist of the National Security Doctrine implantation process in South America.

Keywords: southern cone dictatorship, human rights, fundo clamor

Anna Flávia Arruda Lanna Barreto[1] 

  [1] Professora substituta do curso de História, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. E-mail: afalbarreto@gmail.com