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Article: Secrets revealed: women victims of sexual violence as torture during Chile's era of political repression, 1973-1990.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Introduction
This report was written in the context of the 30-year commemoration of the military coup in Chile in 1973. The objective of the study is to contribute a gender perspective to the nation's historical memory of the repression that occurred under the dictatorship.
The democratization process that began in Chile in 1990 was founded on the acknowledgement and documentation of human rights violations. Chile's social movements, including human rights organizations and groups of survivors of repression, lobbied authorities constantly to confront the nation's past, leading to the creation of the Rettig Commission and the National Commission on ...