14m •
2020
Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’ homes and workplaces to publicly shame them and raise awareness about the government’s systematic and brutal targeting of its people — and how it had gone unpunished. The human rights group HIJOS (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence) led and labeled this direct-action style of protest “escrache,” or exposure.
The New York Times • US
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
2015•
0
2011•
7.0
2001•
0
1983•
9.5
2024•
7.0
2015•
0
1987•
8.3
2003•
5.5
2009•
7.5
1988•
0
2016•
10.0
2017•
6.5
1974•
6.8
2017•
6.2
2019•
0
