Florencia Gattari

A human tragedy on the backdrop of a legal and medical scandal which in 2007 lead to legal action against the Argentinean state before the UN Human Rights Commission and a verdict of guilty in 2011. The mentally and physically handicapped 16-year-old girl Laura had been raped by her uncle in 2006. But a legal abortion which had already been officially granted at the request of her mother, Vicenta, was opposed by lawyers and doctors.

Stories of girls and boys whose rights to live with their families were violated. First- and third-person accounts that show wounded childhoods and care processes, and how difficult it is to grow up without supportive bonds.

A human tragedy on the backdrop of a legal and medical scandal which in 2007 lead to legal action against the Argentinean state before the UN Human Rights Commission and a verdict of guilty in 2011. The mentally and physically handicapped 16-year-old girl Laura had been raped by her uncle in 2006. But a legal abortion which had already been officially granted at the request of her mother, Vicenta, was opposed by lawyers and doctors.

Stories of girls and boys whose rights to live with their families were violated. First- and third-person accounts that show wounded childhoods and care processes, and how difficult it is to grow up without supportive bonds.