Nora Cortiñas

Nora Irma Morales de Cortiñas (born Nora Irma Morales; 22 March 1930 – 30 May 2024), better known as Nora "Norita" Cortiñas, was an Argentine social psychologist and human rights activist. She was a co-founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and later of Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora.

Career Cortiñas was a social psychologist and professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. From 1998, she held the chair of "Economic Power and Human Rights".

Her son Gustavo Cortiñas was a member of the Justicialist Party and the Montoneros organization in the Villa 31 neighborhood of Buenos Aires. He was arrested and disappeared in Castelar, Buenos Aires Province, on 15 April 1977, when he was working in the Ministry of Economy after having previously passed through the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina and the National Securities Commission, by members of the Armed Forces.

Cortiñas died on 30 May 2024 in Buenos Aires, at the age of 94.

Awards and honours 2000, Doctor Honoris Causa, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 2004, Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of Salta 2012, Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires 2019, Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of Entre Ríos 2019, Human Rights Award from the Spanish Association for Human Rights, shared with Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza