Mother of Plaza de Mayo leader Taty Almeida was awarded an honorary doctorate by Argentina’s National University of the Arts (UNA) yesterday in recognition of her human rights campaigning.

The university honoured her “struggle to seek truth and justice but without revenge” for her tireless struggle after her son disappeared under the military junta in 1975.

She received the Doctor Honoris Causa for her “long career in the dissemination and promotion of the defence of human rights and fundamental work in the consolidation of the collective memory of Argentine and Latin American society.”

Ms Almeida is one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line who have sought justice and the truth for the killings, torture and forced disappearances of an estimated 30,000 that took place under the dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983.

“I am very grateful and with a full heart," she said after the award ceremony which was attended by hundreds of people including politicians and social movement leaders.

“With what we are living under [President Mauricio] Macri and company, this was a hug for the soul," Ms Almeida added.