''Servicio Paz y Justicia'' (SERPAJ, Service Peace and Justice) is a

Human Rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...

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, founded in 1974. It is a Christian based and nonviolent organization, and is committed for the defense of

political prisoners A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although ...

in the different South American

dictatorship A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no Limited government, limitations. Politics in a dictatorship are controlled by a dictator, ...

s during the

Dirty War The Dirty War () is the name used by the military junta or National Reorganization Process, civic-military dictatorship of Argentina () for its period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983. During this campaign, military and secu ...

in the 1970–80s.

Affiliations of the SERPAJ

The SERPAJ has a consultative status in the

United Nations Economic and Social Council The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized ...

and in

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ) is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and International secur ...

, receiving in 1987 the

UNESCO Prize for Peace Education The UNESCO Prize for Peace Education was awarded annually beginning 1981. The main goal of UNESCO education prize was to encourage excellent effort in the drive to reach a better quality education. The prize endowed up to US$60,000 and a statuett ...

. It is member of the Ligue internationale pour les droits et la libération des peuples and observer member of the International Coalition for the Decade. The SERPAJ is also member of the Network '' Memoria Abierta'', created in 1999.

Personalities of the SERPAJ

One of the founders and the first coordinator of the SERPAJ was the 1980

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish language, Swedish and ) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the Will and testament, will of Sweden, Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobe ...

winner

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born 26 November 1931) is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1 ...

. The Partido Socialista del Uruguay lawyer Azucena Berruti has been a member of the SERPAJ-Uruguay, and minister of Defense of the

Tabaré Vázquez Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas (; 17 January 19406 December 2020) was a Uruguayan politician and oncologist who served as the 39th and 41st President of Uruguay from 2005 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2020. During his political career, Vázquez was a ...

government (2005–2008).

Sources

*Philippe MacManus, Gerald Schlabach, ''Relentless Persistence: Nonviolent Action in Latin America'', Eugene (Oregon), Wifp & Stock, 1991, Foreword Leonardo Boff. *Ronald Pagnuco, John D. McCarthy, « Advocating Direct Nonviolent Action in Latin America: The Antecedents and Emergence of SERPAJ », in Bronislaw Misztal – Anson Shupe dit. ''Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective. Revival of Religious Fundamentalism in East and West'', Westport (CT), Praeger Pub., 1992, ch. 10, p. 125–149. *Jeffrey Klaiber, ''The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America'', Orbis Book, 1998 (Reed. Eugene (Oregon), Wifp & Stock, 2007)

External links

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SERPAJ-Argentina websiteSERPAJ-Ecuador websiteSERPAJ-Uruguay website
International human rights organizations Human rights organisations based in Argentina Dirty wars Nonviolence organizations {{Argentina-org-stub

Affiliations of the SERPAJ

Personalities of the SERPAJ

See also

Sources

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