Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentinaâs military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the countryâs estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetratorsâ homes and workplaces to publicly shame them and raise awareness about the governmentâs systematic and brutal targeting of its people â and how it had gone unpunished. The human rights group HIJOS (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence) led and labeled this direct-action style of protest âescrache,â or exposure.