Victoria Donda

Since 2019, she has been the president of the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), one of the Argentine government's prime human rights institutions.

In 2019 she was selected to head the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI) by President Alberto Fernández.

In 2007, she was elected to Argentina's Chamber of Deputies on the Front for Victory list, representing Buenos Aires Province. The following year, she joined the Broad Progressive Front (FAP)'s bloc, and was re-elected in that list in 2011. In 2015, she was the first candidate in the Progressives' list and was the only legislator on the list to be elected to Congress, this time representing the Federal Capital.

In 2006, Donda was elected a councilmember in the municipality of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province.

On May 24, 2004, when ESMA was converted by the government into a memorial center, Donda spoke at the ceremony:

In 2003, when she was 26 years of age, Victoria Donda discovered her true identity after communicating with the group H.I.J.O.S. (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Oblivion and Silence) and the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Before Victoria Donda knew her identity, she had already been interested in human rights and poverty issues, working for a soup kitchen called "Azucena Villaflor", name of a disappeared human rights activist and first president of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Donda became later member of the Freemen of the South Movement (Movimiento Libres del Sur, LDS). She was part of a mob that stormed into the Argentine Congress and vandalized it during the December 2001 riots.

One week later, DNA analysis revealed Donda's true identity. She was the first "sister" found by H.I.J.O.S. and the 78th granddaughter found by the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Some weeks later, her kidnapper was detained; he is currently on trial, along with Juan Antonio Azic and other prosecuted, for 62 crimes against humanity.

Victoria Analía Donda Pérez (born 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine human rights activist and legislator. She is the first daughter of a "disappeared" person, born in captivity, to become a member of the Argentine National Congress. She was the youngest woman to hold that office.

She was born in 1977, in the notorious clandestine detention center called ESMA in Buenos Aires while her mother, María Hilda Pérez de Donda, was "disappeared" for her involvement with leftist groups. Her father, José María Laureano Donda, was also held in captivity during the same time. Both remain disappeared and are presumed to have been killed during that period. She is one of approximately 500 children known to have been born to disappeared political prisoners during Argentina's Dirty War (1976–1983), who were kidnapped and registered under false identities.