Argentinian Transitional Justice Process: Women Behind

In the Argentinian transitional justice process, women's issues were neglected by all the different mechanisms that attempted to redress the gross human rights violations perpetrated during the last military dictatorship. In other words, democracy failed women and relegated them to their traditional roles as keepers of the family at the time that they started to demand justice for their identities and bodily and sexual integrity. This essay analyses the significance of the sexual violence carried out against women in clandestine detention centres during the last military dictatorship. Furthermore, it explores the position of gender justice within the Argentinian transitional justice process, and the gender discrimination that has made sexual violence committed against women a taboo into the transitional justice mechanisms in Argentina. Keywords: Argentina, transitional justice, women, sexual violence, human rights.