Amy Booth Mon, June 15, 2026 at 2:20 p.m. UTC 2 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taty Almeida (centre) during a weekly march at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, in April 2017.Photograph: Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images The human rights activist Lidia "Taty" Almeida – who spent more than half a century searching for her son after he was forcibly disappeared by Argentina's military junta – has died aged 95, prompting a public outpouring of grief.