Magdalena massacre hearing at the IACHR: the State acknowledges responsibility for the 33 deaths
More than 17 years later, the Argentine State acknowledged before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights its international responsibility for the incident and committed to put a series of measures in place to prevent such cruel deaths from ever happening again. CELS and the Colectivo de Investigación y Acción Jurídica (CIAJ) took part in the hearing as representatives of the victim’s families.
Argentina’s CSJN orders the Provincial Supreme Court to take substantive measures against prison crowding in Buenos Aires Province
The ruling recognizes the gravity of jail and prison overcrowding in the province. Since 2012, the number of persons permanently jailed in police stations has risen 426%.
Guernica Land Occupation: The Solution Is Housing
The situation deserves a reaction to the true problem: thousands of people have nowhere to live.
Deaths in the Esteban Echeverría police station are a focus of the National System for the Prevention of Torture
The National System’s annual assembly analyzed the grave humanitarian situation in places of confinement and demanded justice for the victims of a fire in Police Station 3 of Esteban Echeverría, Buenos Aires province. Participants included representatives of the judicial branch and civil society, as well as family members of victims.
Places of confinement: the provincial state must adopt urgent measures
In the 163rd period of IACHR hearings, the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria (CPM), Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) and the Public Appeals Defender exposed the crisis in the system of confinement in the province of Buenos Aires and called on the provincial and national states to take measures to reduce overcrowding, overpopulation, inhuman conditions, lack of access to health, and torture in prisons.
