Nora Cortiñas
{{Short description|Argentine human rights activist (1930–2024)}}
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{{Family name hatnote|Morales|Cortiñas|lang=Argentine}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Nora Cortiñas
| image = Nora Cortiñas (cropped).jpg
| caption = Cortiñas in 2014
| birth_name = Nora Irma Morales
| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|03|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|05|30|1930|03|22|df=y}}
| death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
| occupation = Human rights activist
| organization = Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora
| spouse = {{marriage|Carlos Cortiñas|1950|end=?}}{{cite web |last=Melicchio |first=Pablo |date=4 August 2019 |title=El lado Norita de la Vida |url=https://www.elcohetealaluna.com/el-lado-norita-de-la-vida |work=El Cohete a la Luna}}
| children = 2
}}
Nora Irma Morales de Cortiñas (born Nora Irma Morales; 22 March 1930 – 30 May 2024), better known as Nora "Norita" Cortiñas, was an Argentine social psychologist and human rights activist. She was a co-founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and later of Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora.{{cite web |title=Nora Cortiñas |url=http://agendadelasmujeres.com.ar/paginas/cortinas.html |website=agendadelasmujeres.com.ar |access-date=30 August 2021 |language=es}}
Career
Cortiñas was a social psychologist and professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. From 1998, she held the chair of "Economic Power and Human Rights".{{cite web |title=Facultad de Ciencias Económicas |url=https://www.uba.ar/derechoshumanos/noticia.php?id=0&idn=23 |website=www.uba.ar |publisher=Universidad de Buenos Aires |access-date=30 August 2021}}
Her son Gustavo Cortiñas was a member of the Justicialist Party and the Montoneros organization in the Villa 31 neighborhood of Buenos Aires.{{cite news |last1=Erbetta |first1=Emilia |title=Norita Cortiñas haciendo cosas en lugares |url=http://cosecharoja.org/norita-cortinas-haciendo-cosas-en-lugares/ |access-date=30 August 2021 |work=Cosecha Roja |date=23 March 2018 |language=es-AR}} He was arrested and disappeared in Castelar, Buenos Aires Province, on 15 April 1977, when he was working in the Ministry of Economy after having previously passed through the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina and the National Securities Commission,{{cite news |last1=Meyer |first1=Adriana |title=Un legajo en el Indec |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/subnotas/101269-31907-2008-03-25.html |access-date=30 August 2021 |work=www.pagina12.com.ar |date=25 March 2008 |language=es}} by members of the Armed Forces.
File:6 de juliol de 2019 Jornades sobre la desobediència civil (48241022171).jpg, Spain, in 2019]]
From 1977, Cortiñas was part of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora, who demand that the authorities punish those guilty of the kidnappings, torture and forced disappearances of approximately 30,000 people during the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. She travelled through all continents calling for solidarity with the families of the disappeared and the punishment of those guilty of crimes against humanity in their country. As a university professor, she carried out analyses and studies on the relationship between the military dictatorship, foreign debt and the economic crisis in Argentina.
Cortiñas showed her support for the cause of legal abortion, being a speaker at the Ni una menos march on 4 June 2018, in favor of it.{{cite news |title=En la marcha Ni Una Menos, Nora Cortiñas se sumó al pedido por el aborto legal: "Ya no somos invisibles" |url=https://tn.com.ar/videos/sociedad/en-la-marcha-ni-una-menos-nora-cortinas-se-sumo-al-pedido-por-el-aborto-legal-ya-no-somos-invisibles_873324/ |access-date=30 August 2021 |work=Todo Noticias |date=4 June 2018 |language=es}}
Cortiñas died on 30 May 2024 in Buenos Aires, at the age of 94.{{Cite web |last=Bertoia |first=Luciana |date=30 May 2024 |title=Murió Nora Cortiñas, la madre de todas las batallas {{!}} Falleció a los 94 años |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/740968-murio-nora-cortinas-un-emblema-de-la-lucha-por-los-derechos- |access-date=30 May 2024 |website=PAGINA12 |language=es}}
Awards and honours
- 2000, Doctor Honoris Causa, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium{{cite news |title=Nora Cortiñas dará una charla en la Escuela Estrada |url=http://www.canuelasya.com/sin-categoria/nora-cortinas-dara-una-charla-en-la-escuela-estrada/ |access-date=30 August 2021 |work=CañuelasYa! |date=8 November 2017 |language=es}}
- 2004, Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of Salta{{cite web |title=Nora Cortinas: Doctora Honoris Causa de la Universidad Nacional de Salta -- educ.ar |url=http://portal.educ.ar/noticias/educacion-y-sociedad/nora-cortinas-doctora-honoris.php |access-date=30 August 2021 |language=es |date=23 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223051602/http://portal.educ.ar/noticias/educacion-y-sociedad/nora-cortinas-doctora-honoris.php |archive-date=23 February 2018}}
- 2012, Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos AiresLa UBA distinguió a Nora Cortiñas con el Doctorado Honoris Causa, 11 December 2012
- 2019, Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of Entre Ríos{{cite news |title=Entregarán el Doctora Honoris Causa a Nora Cortiñas en facultad de Paraná - Haciendo Comunidad - Elonce.com |url=https://www.elonce.com/secciones/institucionales/604140-entregarnan-el-doctora-honoris-causa-a-nora-cortinas-en-facultad-de-paranna.htm |access-date=30 August 2021 |work=Elonce.com |language=es-ES}}
- 2019, Human Rights Award from the Spanish Association for Human Rights, shared with Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza{{cite news |title=Los Premios Derechos Humanos 2019 reconocen a las madres de la Plaza de Mayo y a una economista ruandesa, entre otros |url=https://www.infolibre.es/noticias/politica/2019/12/04/los_premios_derechos_humanos_2019_reconocen_las_madres_plaza_mayo_una_economista_ruandesa_entre_otros_101653_1012.html |access-date=30 August 2021 |work=infoLibre.es |date=4 December 2019 |language=es}}
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