Adolfo Pérez Esquivel at World Social Forum 2003

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Pérez Esquivel) (born November 26, 1931), from Argentina, was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize. He is noted for leading protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas and for alleging that the Argentinan police are forming children into paramilitary squads, an operation he compares to the creation of World War II's Hitler Youth. Download high resolution version (1707x1181, 146 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1707x1181, 146 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Noam Chomsky at World Social Forum 2003. ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Nobel Peace Prize (where Nobel is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable) is one of five Nobel Prizes requested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... The Free Trade Area of the Americas or FTAA (in Spanish: Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas, ALCA; in French: Zone de libre-échange des Amériques, ZLEA; in Portuguese: Área de Livre Comércio das Américas, ALCA) is a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce trade... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... A paramilitary is a group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion. ... A squad is a military unit consisting of several soldiers, larger than a fire team but smaller than a platoon. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Flag of the Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth (German: Hitler-Jugend, abbreviated HJ) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that existed from 1922 to 1945. ...

Pérez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires and attended the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. For 25 years, he taught in primary schools, secondary schools and at the university level. He has worked in a number of sculptural media. Buenos Aires (Good Air in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America. ... Ancient Greeks depiction of ideal form of the body is expressed through sculpture such as this one. ...

In the 1960s, Perez Esquivel began working with popularly based Latin American Christian pacifist groups. In 1974 he was chosen as coordinator general for a network of Latin America base communities promoting liberation of the poor through non-violent means. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... The term Christian means belonging to Christ and is derived from the Greek noun Χριστός Khristós which means anointed one, which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word Moshiach (Hebrew: משיח, also written Messiah), (and in Arabic it is pronounced Maseeh مسيح). ... Pacifism is opposition to the practice of war. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Nonviolence (or non-violence) is a set of assumptions about morality, power and conflict that leads its proponents to reject the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political goals. ...

When systematic repression followed the Argentine military coup of 1976, he contributed to the formation and financing of the linkages between popularly based organizations to defend human right and support the victims' families. El Servicio de Paz y Justicia ("Service, Peace and Justice Foundation"), which he founded, evolved in this context, and served as an instrument for the defense of human rights by promoting an international campaign to denounce the atrocities committed by the military regime. 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1975, Perez Esquivel was detained by the Brazilian military police; he was jailed in 1976 in Ecuador, along with Latin American and North American bishops; and in 1977 in Buenos Aires he was arrested by the Policía Federal, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months. Whilst incarcerated, he received - among other distinctions - the Pope John XXIII Peace Memorial. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the defense of human rights. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Buenos Aires (Good Air in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America. ... The Blessed Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881–June 3, 1963), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from October 28, 1958 until his death in 1963. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

As of 2003, he is president of the Honorary Council of Service, Latin American Peace and Justice Foundation and of the International League for Human Rights and Liberation of Peoples, based in Milan, Italy, and a member of the Permanent Popular Tribunal. Besides this work, he published Caminando Junto al Pueblo ("Walking Together with the People", 1995), where he relates his experiences with non-violence in Latin America. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January events January 1 Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Gandhi
• Nonviolence
• Nobel Peace Prize
• World Social Forum

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References

This is largely translated from the Spanish-language Wikipedia, which lists http://www.oas.org/EN/PINFO/WEEK/panelist.htm as a reference.