Between Denial and Aggression: Argentina’s Image in the CAT Review
The UN Committee Against Torture understands that Argentina is experiencing a narrowing of civic space. It also notes that prior to this review, nine UN special procedures warned, among other rights violations, about the disproportionate use of force, less lethal weapons, and arbitrary detentions. The government dismissed the evidence.
Argentina before the Committee against Torture: Policies that Deepen Suffering and Exclusion
Together with various social and human rights organizations, we submitted a series of shadow reports on state practices that violate human rights in the country.
Report: The Hidden Costs of House Arrest for Women in Latin America
Imposing house arrest without guaranteeing access to fundamental human rights, particularly in low-income homes, can be as punitive as imprisonment.
Magdalena massacre at the IACHR: Detention conditions worsen in Buenos Aires province
The Argentine state is responsible for the country’s detention conditions at the international level. The trial over the deaths that occurred 13 years ago bore witness to the grave consequences of a penitentiary system in crisis.
“Argentina is responsible for widespread and persistent violations of the Convention against torture”
The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, upon concluding his visit to the country, said that detention conditions in provincial police stations and prisons “severely contravene international standards and are incompatible with human dignity.” He also denounced the “degrading” conditions in the Melchor Romero psychiatric hospital and police violence in low-income neighborhoods. At the same time, he urged the Argentine state to allocate “sufficient resources to ensure the timely processing and adjudication of the remaining cases and trials for crimes against humanity.”
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.
