2023-09-14 22:29:24
In the session of Superior Council of the National University of Comahue (UNCo) The last legacy of Noemí Labrune, founder of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (APDH). This is a program to transform a Cipolletti student residence in a sustainable homeand also generate awareness regarding human, political, social, economic, cultural and environmental rights.
Noemí Labrune continues to defend human rights a few days following her death. hToday the Superior Council of the UNCo approved the latest project presented by her, it is the university program “La Casa de Leticia”, a residence that houses 10 students in Cipolletti.
In 2015, Noemí Labrune and her daughter Albertina Labrune decided to donate the home located at 775 Villegas Street in Cipolletti. A year later the house was converted so that it might be used as a student residence. In 2018, before the donation was approved by the Superior Council, the founder of APDH requested compliance with certain requirements.
He “Leticia’s House” program emphasize that the residence must be intended for students without resources to cover their expenses and who pursue careers related to health care and environmental protection. He also requested that there be a training and awareness program in defense of human, political, social, economic, cultural and environmental rights. He also asked that the house be transformed into a sustainable home. Incorporating, for example, the use of solar energy.
Today the residence is inhabited by 10 students who came to the area to seek professional growth. The project was presented to the Superior Council by the Cabinet coordinator, Alejo Simonelliwhich provided details of the work carried out so far and pending tasks.
“Leticia’s house”, a student residence in Cipolletti: Why does it have that name?
The house is named Leticia Veraldi, young activist of the Student Center of the Vicente López National School, in Buenos Aires, who in 1976 arrived at the Labrune family home at the request of the young woman’s parents who considered that I was going to be safer in the Upper Valley.
But this was not so, On July 4, 1977, she was kidnapped by the intelligence services of the Sixth Mountain Brigade Command in Cipolletti. and transferred to the clandestine detention center La Escuelita. Leticia still remains missing.
“By naming a student residence following a 17-year-old girl, kidnapped in that house because she was a member of the Guevarist Youth, We hope that the students who pass by there will evoke what happened during the dictatorship and, above all, they encounter that project of the young people of that time to modify, that society is so unfair and making this country another country,” said Labrune when the project was presented in 2018.
Noemí Labrune, founder of the APDH Neuquén and tireless fighter for human rights
The founder of the APDH Neuquén and reference for human rights Noemí Labrune died on Sunday at 93 years old. On Saturday, the second edition of “Noemí Labrune and the fight for Human Rights, from the individual to the collective”, the book that reflects his legacy of struggle in the region, had been presented at the Neuquén Book Fair.
Labrune was born in 1930, in the city of Buenos Aires. He studied Philosophy at the UBA and completed a doctorate at the University of Paris with a scholarship awarded by the French Institute of Higher Studies in 1953. Upon his return to Argentina, he dedicated his career to College extension as was the popular adult education project of Isla Maciel.
During the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganíawas one of the 1,000 UBA teachers and researchers who resigned following “The night of the long sticks”when the repressive forces forcibly entered the Faculty of Exact Sciences where all the faculty had gathered to reject the intervention.
Together with his partner, Cristián Labrune, who was an engineer at Hidronor, and his daughter, They arrived in El Chocón in 1972. Two years later they went to live in Cipolletti for more than forty years and that home in the Rosauer neighborhood was donated in 2018 to the National University of Comahue to function as a student residence. Has the name of Leticia Veraldia student who disappeared at the door of that house on July 4, 1977.
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