“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

Robert F. Kennedy
Capetown, June 6th 1966

1984: COMADRES, EL SALVADOR

Ending politically motivated forced disapperance in El Salvador.

During El Salvador's civil war, a group of women banned together to discover the fate of their disappeared relatives. Eventually growing to over five hundred members, COMADRES fought for the amnesty of political prisoners, information concerning the whereabouts of missing soldiers, and punishment for those responsible for political assassinations. The members of

COMADRES received the first annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1984.

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Logo photo: Stanley Tretick, Sidebar photo: Bill Eppridge