Aura Elena Farfán

Aura Elena Farfán

Aura Elena Farfán is a Guatemalan human rights activist. She is the founder and Executive Director of FAMDEGUA "(Familiares de Detenidos y Desaparecidos de Guatemala)", a Guatemala City-based organization dedicated to surviving family members of people who have been disappeared by the Guatemalan government. It is one of Guatemala's oldest human rights organizations. Farfán has been the subject of frequent death threats as the result of her activities, and was, along with her driver, briefly kidnapped by armed assailants on 4 May, 2001. [ [http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR34/014/2001/en/dom-AMR340142001en.html Further information on fear for safety of members of FAMDEGUA] Amnesty International, 8 May 2001.]

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