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Name Estela Barnes de Carlotto Occupation President of the Argentinian association Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and President of the Argentinian Commission for the Monitoring and Application of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child Date 27/01/2005 Nominated on Faculty of Political Science and Sociology Faculty of Law Faculty Philosophy and Art Investiture 04/10/2005 Sponsor José Luis Martín Ramos

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Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1930. She was a teacher and the Director of the Colonel Branden National School and President of the Argentinean National School Assessment Board (Junta de Calificación de Escuelas Nacionales). In 1978 Barnes joined the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo to search for her daughter Laura Estela, who disappeared in November 1977, and her granddaughter, who was born in captivity in June 1978. In 1978 she became Vice-President of the association, and today she is President. She has received honorary doctorates from various Argentinean universities and from the University of Massachussets. The Danielle Mitterand Foundation, "France Libertés", acknowledged her as a "Woman of Struggle" in 1989, the bicentenary of the French Revolution. The following year the French government awarded her the Légion d'honneur. Barnes de Carlotto is also President of the Argentinean Committee for Monitoring and Applying the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Acceptance speech extract

"Siempre sostengo que soy una mujer común, una madre que nace a esta lucha por el orgullo que me inspiran cada instante Laura y sus 30.000 compañeros. Entonces me pregunto dónde está mi merito para recibir este reconocimiento si hago lo que debo, lo que me dicta el corazón. Si el amor, la resistencia, el empecimiento, la convicción, el compromiso, el desafío, la constancia es un mérito entonces tendrá sentido el recibir mi Doctorado "Honoris Causa". Pero estos 28 años de caminar sin pausa y sin descanso no han sido en soledad. Nada podría haber construido y conseguido sola." Estela Barnes de Carlotto President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

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