This publication documents the exchanges and exhibitions that occurred during the seminar “Access to Human Rights Archives: Models and Experiences”, organised by the General Archive of the University of the Republic and the General Archive of Uruguay (6th and 7th November 2008).

Biography on Gerardo Gatti which constitutes a very important piece of research on his life and trajectory as a student leader, the founder of the Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (National Workers’ Convention), and a political leader. The first secretary general of the Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo (Party for the People’s Victory) was disappeared in Argentina in 1976, after having been captured by a joint operation between Uruguayan and Argentine repressors under the framework of Operation Condor.

This publication is the written and photographic testimony of Daniel Rey Piuma, a Uruguayan naval officer who worked in the Inteligencia de Prefectura (the intelligence agency of the Argentine Naval Prefecture), before deserting the Armed Forces to denounce the systematic practice of torture by the Uruguayan Naval Fusiliers Corps (FUSNA) before the United Nations (UN). He had joined this force in 1977 before escaping the country in 1980.

The name of the author of this book is a pseudonym. The text was based on the declarations of Hugo Walter García Rivas, an intelligence officer who requested leave and later deserted the Army’s Compañía de Contrainformación e Inteligencia (Company of Counterinformation and Intelligence). He made his first public declarations in Brazil in June 1980, providing information about the systematic and generalised use of torture, military intelligence operations, and names of repressors who were responsible for kidnapping operations.

Indictment of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Argentina led by Pablo E. Ouviña and M. Mercedes Moguilansky, in Plan Condor and Automotores Orletti II- Cases 1504, 1951, 2054 and 1976.

The last ten years has seen a substantial growth in studies on political exiles, both in terms of the subjects and problems that they choose to investigate. This book is enrooted in this process since it crystallises reflections and concerns that are confluent within the field. This work brings together innovative pieces of research that were presented at the International Colloquium of Research on the Political Exiles of the Southern Cone, celebrated on 11 October 2017 at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.

This book compiles the action taken by Amnesty International to defend human rights in Uruguay during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly linked to the national and international efforts to build support networks for victims of political persecution. It develops an in-depth account of the cases of the legislators Michelini, Gutiérrez Ruiz, and Ferreira Aldunate.

This report by the Madres y Familiares de Uruguayos Detenidos Desparecidos (Mothers and Relatives of Disappeared Uruguayan Detainees) constitutes an effort to bring together the information about the disappeared detainees and the conditions of their capture that had been gathered until the report was published in 2004. It also contains information about political assassinations and the children who were appropriated and returned to their biological families.

This book explores the history of the conformation and trajectory of the fights of the Asociación Madres y Familiares de Detenidos Desparecidos de Uruguay (The Uruguayan Association for the Mothers and Relatives of Disappeared Detainees) from 1976 to 2005. The different stages in the claims for the truth to be known about the whereabouts of the disappeared detainees, both on national soil and in the region, is systematised through testimonies from the protagonists and key documents that unfold the context of the political disputes of these years and its projection onto the present.