Right to Health: The IACHR Heard About the Negative Impacts of Austerity Measures
Civil society organizations presented information on the dismantling of health policies across Argentina. The IACHR asked the government about the effects of austerity measures on older adults, people with disabilities, children, and those living with chronic illnesses.
IACHR Report 2025: Setbacks in Rights and the Deterioration of Democratic Life in Argentina
These are some of the conclusions drawn from the Inter-American Commission’s findings. Furthermore, the document highlights the authoritarian restructuring of the state resulting from the government’s reforms.
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.
Intersectionality and protest
Author: CELS, ILEX, CIVICUS
16 pages
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Absolution for Luz Aimé Díaz
As the hearings begin in Luz Aimé’s trial, we at CELS join the campaign for her absolution. The case has been marked by discrimination based on her travesti identity wich lead to a change in charges based on an exagerated hypothesis that cannot be substantiated by facts. The deficiency of the justice system ends up putting innocent people in prison, leaves the victims of offenses without reparation while offenders remain unpunished.
The Argentine state will be evaluated at the UN
National organizations presented their assessments for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a peer evaluation of the human rights situation in each of the UN’s 193 member states. Argentina will be evaluated in early November.
The UN Human Rights Committee analyzed the state of civil and political rights in Argentina
Dialogue between the UN Human Rights Committee and the Argentine state regarding compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Crossing the Threshold: Challenges and Proposals for Deinstitutionalization from Asylums
Author: CELS
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Ruined Lives: Segregation from Society in Argentina’s Psychiatric Asylums
Author: Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI), Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS)
86 pgs.
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