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2008 Recipient of Anselm Moons, OFM, Award
Biography
 Sr. Dianna Ortiz
is a U.S. citizen who was held and tortured by Guatemalan security
forces and an American working with them. Prior to her abduction in
November 1989, she had been working as an Ursuline nun in Guatemala and
teaching young children in a rural area of that country. Sister Dianna
is a staff member of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA, a
founder and former coordinator of the Torture Abolition and Survivor
Support Committee, and a founder and former co-chair of Coalition
Missing, an advocacy group of U.S. citizens who survived political
violence in Guatemala. She has done significant advocacy around human
rights and preventing torture.
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