The increasing use of less lethal weapons by police and security forces leads to situations of increasing state violence. At the same time, the possibility of discussing how and when they can be used seems to be blocked. The presence of protesters on the streets is essential to not see their rights crushed by extractivism, … Continued
CELS and Memoria Abierta have prepared a new special where we offer five highlights of the argentine government decision to re-legitimitate of state terrorism.
In the past six months, protesting in Argentina has become a crime. Those who take to the streets to demonstrate risk being victims of repression, arbitrary detentions, imprisonment, and serious charges. Police violence is not investigated. In Buenos Aires alone, 665 people have suffered injuries—including vision loss—and 80 people have been detained. We have prepared this special report analyzing the various policies and strategies of Milei’s government to discourage, obstruct, and harass those who want to protest in the streets.
The policy of memory, truth, and justice is affected by a combination of general budget cuts and the defunding and/or hollowing out of structures and denialism positions regarding crimes against humanity committed by the Armed Forces during the last dictatorship.
We have compiled a document highlighting international human rights standards, enshrined in the Argentine Constitution, which are not upheld in the president’s DNU 70/23. This material, submitted to Congress as a contribution to legislative efforts, serves as a guide to the declarations, conventions, principles, and observations within the international system pertaining to the rights impacted by the DNU.
In Latin America there have been numerous violations of the rights of women and LGBT+ people in the context of protests, which affect their ability to exercise their right to expression, assembly and demonstration, as well as the exercise of their role as defenders of human rights.
We discovered 825 criminal cases filed for abortions and 37 more for possible obstetric events between 2012 and 2020, in twelve jurisdictions.
In 2019, CELS is celebrating 40 years in existence. Over the course of recent decades, we have built human rights as a horizon and as an approach. As a horizon, it guides our actions: the promotion of modes of social organization that protect life and integrity and ensure the full exercise of economic, social, cultural … Continued
How and why is the region militarizing? What is the role of the United States? What is changing in the way police and military forces are trained and equipped? This publication contributes specific data to analyze the extent to which the doctrine of “new threats” affects security policies and has negative consequences for human rights.
This document compiles the information sent to the UN committee evaluating Argentina’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In a context of economic crisis, fiscal adjustment and preexisting structural limitations, the outlook is worrisome.
The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) submitted its reflections on the challenges posed by privacy in the digital age to the UN Human Rights Committee.
This report makes recommendations to the United Nations, its member states and the drug policy community on aligning the metrics used to measure drug policy impact with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In the coming months, UN member states will negotiate the Global Compact on migration. CELS and five other organizations present concrete measures that the Compact should include to guarantee migrants’ rights.
This is the twenty-first report on human rights in Argentina edited by the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS). It is being presented at a very particular time, since a number of decisions, measures and events are adversely affecting critical items on the human rights agenda as well as protection mechanisms.
Human rights violations have multiplied as a result of a model of combating drug trafficking that has intensified and expanded violence – without achieving its purported goals.
The National Consensus for Decent Habitat proposes a broad and critical debate and the implementation of ten policies and strategies aimed at guaranteeing the right to adequate urban and rural habitat in Argentina.