On May 13, 2012, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives will
present the Second ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism,
in the amount of $100,000, to Fredy Peccerelli, Executive
Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, and
Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at
the National Security Archive. The award ceremony will take
place at the Museum of the City of New York. “Both Doyle and
Peccerelli are indefatigable defenders of human rights who have
played a seminal role in the fight against impunity in Latin
America,” said Sebastiaan Faber, Chair of the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade Archives (ALBA). A determined and creative researcher-
activist, Doyle has spent twenty years working tirelessly with
Latin American human rights organizations and truth commissions
– in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru- to
obtain the declassification of U.S. government archives in
support of their investigations. Peccerelli is an innovative
forensic anthropologist whose work has b