Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayo

Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayo, known in Spanish as Madres de la Plaza 25 de Mayo and also as Las Madres de Rosario or Madres Rosario, is an Argentine human-rights organization based in Rosario, in Santa Fe Province. It was formed by women whose children were forcibly disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War and military dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983. The group's central demand has been information about the fate of the disappeared, accountability for those responsible, and recognition of the victims and their families. The organization initially emerged as a Rosario-based branch of the national Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo movement. Over time, it developed as an independent association with a particular focus on disappearances and state violence in Santa Fe Province. This local orientation distinguishes it from the broader national organization while preserving the same core practice of public, collective remembrance and demands for justice. The group takes its name from Rosario's Plaza 25 de Mayo, a central civic space where its members hold a weekly march every Thursday. The recurring march functions both as a memorial ritual and as a continuing political claim: the disappearance of their children remains an unresolved public matter rather than a closed historical episode. Through their presence in the plaza, the mothers connect personal loss with wider demands for human rights, democratic accountability, and historical truth. The organization is best understood as a civil-society and human-rights advocacy group rather than a commercial brand. Its public identity is rooted in the mothers' testimony, the visibility of the Thursday march, and the geographic association with Rosario. Available reference material does not establish a precise founding year, named founder, formal corporate structure, website, or financial information. Its documented scope is principally local and provincial, although its cause forms part of Argentina's broader national movement for memory, truth, and justice.

Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayo was created in Rosario by women seeking answers about children who were forcibly disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War and military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. The group initially operated as a Rosario branch of the national Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo movement, which had become internationally associated with mothers publicly demanding information about their missing children. The Rosario organization subsequently developed its own association and concentrated on cases connected with Santa Fe Province. Its local identity is expressed through its name, which refers to Plaza 25 de Mayo in central Rosario. Every Thursday, members march in the plaza to call for justice and to keep the disappearances visible in public life. The action combines commemoration, testimony, and political advocacy. The group's documented purpose is not commercial. Its principal activities are human-rights campaigning, remembrance of victims, and demands for accountability concerning forced disappearances and state repression. Public information available for this entry does not specify an exact founding date, individual founder, formal leadership roster, budget, or current website. The organization is nevertheless identifiable as a distinct Rosario-based association within Argentina's wider memory and human-rights movement.

• 1976

  Forced disappearances during the military dictatorship

  [1]Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayoen.wikipedia.org

  The disappearances of the mothers' children during Argentina's Dirty War and military dictatorship formed the central historical context for the organization's creation and advocacy.

• Formation of the Rosario organization

  [1]Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayoen.wikipedia.org

  A group of mothers in Rosario organized to seek answers about their disappeared children. The group first developed as a local branch of the national Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo before becoming an independent association focused on Santa Fe Province.

• Establishment of the Thursday march

  [1]Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayoen.wikipedia.org

  The mothers established a recurring Thursday march in Rosario's Plaza 25 de Mayo, making the square the organization's principal site of public remembrance and demands for justice.

A Rosario-based human-rights organization representing families of people forcibly disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship and maintaining public pressure for truth, memory, and justice.

• Human-rights demonstration

  Thursday march in Plaza 25 de Mayo

  The organization's signature public activity is a weekly Thursday march in Plaza 25 de Mayo in Rosario. Members use the gathering to remember their disappeared children, maintain public visibility for unresolved cases, and demand justice concerning the repression carried out during the military dictatorship.

• Human-rights advocacy

  Advocacy for the disappeared

  The group campaigns for information about people forcibly disappeared during the dictatorship, recognition of victims, and accountability for those responsible. Its work is particularly associated with cases and families from Santa Fe Province.

• Thursday justice march

  Rosario · Santa Fe Province · Argentina

  A recurring public action in Plaza 25 de Mayo in which members march every Thursday to demand justice for their forcibly disappeared children and preserve the issue in public memory.

  Source

1. 1Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayoen.wikipedia.org