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Comité de Cooperación para la Paz en Chile, Comité Pro Paz | |
Successor | Vicariate of Solidarity |
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Formation | October 9, 1973 |
Founder | Raul Silva Henriquez |
Founded at | Santiago |
Dissolved | November 11, 1975 |
Type | human rights organization |
Purpose | legal support; human rights |
Region | Chile |
Official language | Spanish |
The Committee of Cooperation for Peace in Chile (Spanish: Comité de Cooperación para la Paz) was a Chilean peace organization founded in October 1973 by an inter-religious group led by the Archdiocese of Santiago in order to support human rights of those persecuted by the regime of General Augusto Pinochet.
It was the first active human rights organization in Chile and it lasted for two years, supporting thousands of people persecuted by the regime. It dissolved under pressure from the regime in November 1975, but the Vicariate of Solidarity was formed in its wake shortly thereafter, and it took up the baton of protection of human rights in Chile.