María Ester Gatti


María Ester Gatti de Islas was a Uruguayan teacher and human rights activist.

Biography

She founded Madres y Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos, following the abduction and disappearance of her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter during the Dirty War in neighboring Argentina in 1976.
She died in 2010, aged 91. Her remains are buried at Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo.