The National University of Jujuy (UNJU) granted the title of Doctor of honor to the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), through a resolution of the Higher Council. This is the highest academic distinction that the institution can grant, in recognition of the pioneering work of the EAAF in the application of forensic sciences for the research and documentation of cases of political, gender, ethnic or religious violence in more than 40 countries, with a central role in the investigation of human rights violations.
At the national level, the EAAF has recovered more than 1,500 bodies of missing persons between 1974 and 1983, identifying more than 780 individuals and keeping more than 600 bodies not identified under shelter. These tasks are currently in different parts of the country and include, among other actions, the identification of fallen Argentine soldiers and buried as NN during the Falklands War.
In Jujuy, the EAAF trajectory began in 2006, with the dictation of a degree course on forensic anthropology at the Regional Center for Archaeological Studies, aimed at teachers, graduates and students of the Anthropology career of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the UNJ. That same year, he collaborated in the recovery of buried remains as NN in the Yala Cemetery, one of which was identified in 2012, through genetic analysis, such as Rubén Yáñez Velarde, a citizen of Salta kidnapped and killed in 1975.
In 2011, within the framework of the cause known as You have datathe team urged new remains in the same cemetery. Subsequently, in 2015 and 2018, he once again intervened in the province, on the Alto Padilla site and in the old town hall.
The joint work between the EAAF and the human rights organizations in the search for truth and justice promoted, in 2017, the creation of the Laboratory of Research in Human Rights and Social Processes in the Faculty of Humanities of the UNJU. This team was summoned in 2020 to participate as an expert in causes of humanity processed by Federal Court No. 2 of the province, thus strengthening the link between the University and the EAAF.
With more than four decades of experience, EAAF is an international reference in the application of Argentine science to the processes of memory, truth and justice.
