Participants

Viviana Díaz

Member of the Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (AFDD – Association of Families of the Detained and Disappeared) of Chile

(Chile, 1950). Viviana Díaz is the daughter of a well-known Chilean communist leader who disappeared during the dictatorship. She has been a member of the Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (AFDD – Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared) since 1976 and has been its president besides occupying other positions within the association. As a result of her father’s disappearance she became personally and politically involved in the cause of the victims of forced disappearance during the Pinochet dictatorship and has been in charge of coordinating the associations of families of the detained and disappeared for four years. She has also been a member of and spokesperson for international relations of the Executive Committee of the Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (FEDEFAM – Latin American Federation of Associations of Families of the Detained-Disappeared). She presently heads the project “Reconstruyendo Memoria – AFDD Chile” (Reconstructing Memory – AFDD Chile), on which she has been working for the past five years. In 2003 it was recognised by UNESCO and inscribed in the Memory of the World Register. Her internationally-recognised work in defence of human rights and struggle in upholding social justice has led her to participate in a number of notable institutional events.

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