Database building and reports
Lorena Balardini is a teacher of social research methods and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She has designed databases on human rights trials for the National Attorney General Office (Procuración General de la Nación) and the Argentine Center for Legal and Social Studies (Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, CELS).
Website programming and digitalisation
Rodrigo Barbano is a computer programmer specialising in web portals, digitalisation, and digital repositories. He is a defender of software and free culture. He is the co-coordinator of the Project Sitios de Memoria – Uruguay.
Research, content, georeferencing, and website design
Mariana Risso is a psychologist who has worked with victims of violence and torture. As an independent researcher, she has participated in the publication of numerous books and articles on the topic of historical memory. She coordinates the Project Sitios de Memoria – Uruguay.
Coordinator and Principal Researcher
Dr Francesca Lessa is a Departmental Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Development and a researcher at the University of Oxford. She is the author of the recent book, The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America, published by Yale University Press (2022).
Madres y familiares de uruguayos detenidos desaparecidos is a Uruguayan organisation that brings together the families of prisoners who were disappeared during the most recent civil-military dictatorship in Uruguay. Its headquarters can be found in the capital of Montevideo.
ANDHES is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) whose activities are not for profit and independent of political parties and religious institutions. Its mission is to help to re-inscribe human rights and the democratisation of social relations as a social convention, by defending human rights and promoting them through education and public policies.
The Dirección de Memoria Histórica y Reparación (Directorate of Historical Memory and Reparation, DMHR) is an organisation attached to the Paraguayan Ministry of Justice’s General Directorate of Human Rights.
The Agrupación de Familiares de Ejecutados Políticos (Association of the Relatives of Executed Political Prisoners, AFEP) is an organisation that brings together the spouses, companions, children, parents, relatives, and friends of the Chileans who were assassinated by the Pinochet dictatorship between 1973 and 1990. Its headquarters is situated in the capital of Santiago, Chile.
Database on South America’s Transnational Human Rights Violations (1969-1981)
