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It was Argentine's dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla who made the following statement during a press conference: "They are neither dead nor alive, they are desaparecidos (missing)." During Argentina's Dirty War and Operation Condor, many alleged political dissidents were abducted or illegally detained and kept in clandestine detention centers, where they were questioned, tortured, and sometimes killed. These places of torture, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, contributed over 6,000 desaparecidos, or disappeared persons, to the overall count in the Dirty War. The Argentine military justified torture to gather intelligence and understood the disappearances as a way to curb political dissent. Whenever the female captives were pregnant, their children were stolen away right after giving birth, while the women themselves remained detained. An estimated 500 children and infants were given to families with close ties to the military to be raised. In a research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the historian Professor Isabelle Cosse from the Universidad de Buenos Aires seeks to explore how activists, exiles, and human rights organizations in Europe denounced the kidnappings of babies and children perpetrated by the Argentine dictatorship. Thus, the research is situated at the intersection of the history of childhood, human rights studies, and transnational turn approaches. While intending to reconstruct the meaning of childhood for the human rights movement during the Cold War, Professor Cosse also aims to explore how the global stage became a crucial battlefield in the struggle against the Argentinian dictatorship. We asked her some questions concerning her project.