The Cuesta-Duarte Institute is a civil society association created in Uruguay in 1989 at the initiative of the central trade union, the Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores – Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (PIT-CNT), with the overall objective of providing technical support to organised workers, seeking in this way to improve their performance in the representation of their peers within the framework of the class struggle and according to their political objectives.

¿Dónde Están?-Où sont-ils? is a French association (statutes type law 1901) that was established in Paris in 1997, mostly by Uruguayan exiles. Among its main objectives are to raise public awareness about enforced disappearances and other human rights violations committed during the years of state terrorism in Uruguay between 1968 and 1985, and to denounce the impunity of those responsible for those crimes.