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2024 IACHR Report: Human Rights in Argentina

Deterioration in the right to protest and freedom of expression, rollback of memory policies, weakening of protections for LGBTIQ+ rights, austerity measures affecting pensioners, and a rise in child poverty, are among the critical issues the Commission warned about in its annual report. We summarize the Commission’s key findings.

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Press Freedom is Under Threat

In a short time, Javier Milei’s government has cemented a difficult scenario for journalism in Argentina through the closing of public media outlets, the discretional use of state advertising, and authorities’ stigmatization of and aggression against journalists. Such obstacles to freedom of the press undermine democracy.

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Argentina must protect social mobilization, not silence it

More than 35 international and regional organizations call on the argentine government to comply with its international obligations on the right to protest and to investigate the police action on March 12. They also express their solidarity with the demand of decent pensions and concern about the rise of authoritarianism in Argentina.

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Repression as policy: Violence, arbitrary detentions, and the use of dangerous weapons in Argentina

The mobilization outside Congress demanding a pension increase on March 12 was violently repressed in a large-scale operation involving five security forces. Security Minister Patricia Bullrich had warned in advance that there would be repression. Tear gas, rubber bullets, and arbitrary detentions marked a day in which the government justified its actions by invoking the narrative of an “attempted coup.”

argentine constitution
  

Petition for the Declaration of Unconstitutionality of the Appointments of Lijo and García-Mansilla

The decree in question constitutes a clear violation of the National Constitution and a serious affront to the separation of powers and judicial independence. In response, together with the Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ), the Institute for Comparative Studies in Criminal and Social Sciences (INECIP), and Poder Ciudadano, we filed an action for constitutional protection (amparo).

IACHR
  

IACHR Hearing: State fails to address refugee and asylum issues

CAREF, CELS, and the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM) called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to urge the Argentine government to repeal Decree 942/2024, as it undermines due process guarantees and the right to seek and receive asylum. Furthermore, we emphasized that the State must uphold its obligations regarding the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and, in particular, ensure the competence of the officials responsible for adjudicating asylum claims.

December 19-20, 2001
  

IACHR Hearing: State denies responsibility for December 2001  killings and repression 

The Argentine State withdrew its previous acknowledgment of responsibility for the repression carried out in 2001, which it had accepted in 2023. Officials declined to answer questions regarding the State’s new assessment of the events that occurred in December 2001. The events of December 19 and 20, 2001, were an extreme manifestation of state violence following the unjustified declaration of a State of Siege.

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IACHR: Argentina’s government appears aggressive and ill-prepared in hearings on human rights protections

The representative from the La Libertad Avanza administration claimed poverty is decreasing but could not provide any specifics regarding social policies for children and adolescents. Nor did he address the provision of medical supplies to guarantee sexual and reproductive health. Additionally, he denied the existence of gender-based violence. During the hearing on memory policies, he attacked human rights organizations, accusing them of seeking revenge for the last military dictatorship.

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Argentina must respond to the IACHR on the state of human rights

On Thursday November 14, Argentina will face three hearings where various social movements, human rights organizations and unions will present evidence of serious setbacks in public policies. The key issues raised will be memory, truth, and justice; prevention, punishment, and eradication of gender-based violence; and social and food policies.