Alicia Partnoy (b. 1955 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina) is an human rights activist, poet, and translator. Bahía Blanca is a city in eastern Argentina in Buenos Aires Province and a seaport at the head of the Bahia Blanca (White Bay - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean). ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language — the source text — and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language — called the target text, or the translation. ...

After Argentinian President Juan Peron was overthrown by a military regime, the Peronist political party grew with fervor within the country's universities and with workers who surrounded themselves with the Peronist ideals. Yet the war against communism and socialism ran high and the government saw these ideals as a threat to national security. People began to disappear and Partnoy was one of those who suffered through the ordeals of becoming a political prisoner. Partnoy had learned of and became an activist of the Peronist Youth Movement while attending Southern National University. Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine military officer and the President of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and from 1973 to 1974. ... Categories: Politics stubs | Argentine political parties ... Peronism is an Argentine political ideology based on the ideas and programs associated with former president Juan Perón. ... Communism refers to a theoretical system of social organization and a political movement based on common ownership of the means of production. ... The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... Desaparecidos means literally the disappeared in Spanish, and is a reference to people who were arrested, often illegally, by various South American military governments and then vanished. ... A political prisoner is anyone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image either challenge or pose a real or potential threat to the state. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ...

She was taken from her home and her two-year old daughter on January 12, 1977, by the Army and imprisoned at a concentration camp named The Little School (La Escuelita). For three and a half months, Partnoy was blindfolded. She was brutally beaten, starved, electrocuted, raped, and forced to live in inhumane conditions. She was moved from the concentration camp to the prison of Villa Floresta in Bahía Blanca where she stayed for six months only to be transferred to another jail. January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Army (from French armée) can, in some countries, refer to any armed force. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... The Little School is a book written by Alicia Partnoy, a woman who was disappeared during the Dirty War period of the history of Argentina. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...

In 1979, she was forced to leave the country and moved to the USA where she was reunited with her daughter and her husband. In 1985, she told her story of what had happened to her at The Little School. The world began to open its eyes to the treatment of women in reference to the disappearances of Latin America. 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. ...

Alicia Partnoy has testified before the United Nations, the Organization of American States, Amnesty International, and the Argentine Human Rights Commission. Her testimony is recorded in a compilation of testimonials by the Argentine Commission for the Investigation of the Disappeared. She currently lives in Los Angeles, C.A. and teaches at Loyola Marymount University. The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... The Organization of American States (OAS; OEA in the other three official languages) is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA. Its members are the 35 independent nations of the Americas. ... Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ... Loyola Marymount University, also referred to as LMU, is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States. ...