Aura Elena Farfán

Aura Elena Farfán is a Guatemalan human rights activist. She is one of the founders 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.[1]

Aura Elena Farfan

Aura received the International Women of Courage Award in 2018.

References
  1. Further information on fear for safety of members of FAMDEGUA Amnesty International, 8 May 2001.
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