When in 1976 the Armed Forces seized control of the government of Argentina, they began to implement a systematic plan of destruction and of violation of the most fundamental human rights. This brought about the disappearance of at least 30,000 persons. Persons of diverse backgrounds: lawyers, journalists, psychologists, highschool students, unionists; the average age varying between twenty and thirty.
Among the disappeared were hundreds of children who were kidnapped along with their parents or who were born in the clandestine detention centers where their mothers had been taken. Many children were regestered as members of the repressive forces, left in institutions with unknown identities, adopted out to "good" families, others were abandoned. Therefore the children's rights to freedom, identity, and identities were denied.
Associations from the families of the missing, the Grandmothers and Mothers of May Square, HIJOS, and other flowering associations strive in conjunction to relocate the aforementioned through denunciations before national and foreign governments, before the judiciary, and to the general public through the press.