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The paper analyzes the constitution of Pampa organizations of human rights defenders and their active participation in the formation of an investigative body to recover silenced history on the actions of state terrorism in the province of La Pampa, which were under the control of the subarea 14 First Army Corps. In the quest for transparency our recent history Movement for Human Rights has played an important role, essentially paving the way of historical reconstruction and preservation of national memory. The methodology of work consist in analyzing the documentary sources and retrieve the testimony and actions of those who were actively involved in the search for justice, truth, the reconstruction of the historical memory of our country and the recovery of individual and collective rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper lies in analyzing the nature of political participation of women within the various human rights organizations in the province of La Pampa, rescuing them as historical subjects and protagonists of our history. We start to understand participation as a way of self-asserting in society as a legitimate way of claiming our rights as citizens and the citizenship as appropriative practice of existing rights and producer of new rights. It is in the field of human rights organizations at national and local level where participation in general and women in particular enabled the reconstruction of the threads of community and political solidarity corrupted by systematical state violence. Through oral history, is to rescue the voices of women who were active participants in the task of establishing, in pampas society in particular and Argentina in general, demand for justice and the recovery of individual and collective rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to examine three concepts, gender equality, civil society and citizenship, in order to understand what kind of relationship there is between them, and to observe how the feminist agenda might gain from such a relationship. In the revision of feminist history, the link between civil society, citizenship and state appears as the logical development in the struggle for feminist demands. Late 19th century and early 20th century feminist groups are a good example of how women have been very successful in forming associational groups as part of civil society and have claimed the rights that states have finally incorporated through equality policies and laws. Current democratic states have achieved a high level of legal equality, mainly through the mechanism of citizenship, but this mechanism does not seem empowered to undo other constraints that women suffer, especially cultural, social and economic constraints. In searching these inequalities we may find that the civil society arena is much tougher than that represented by a democratic state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]