• Human Rights in Argentina

    Argentina continues to make significant progress in prosecuting military and police personnel for enforced disappearances, killings, and torture during the country’s “Dirty War” between 1976 and 1983, although trials have been subject to delays. In recent years, the Supreme Court has defended the right of pre-trial detainees to be held in adequate conditions, the right of critical print media not to face discrimination in allocating official advertising because of their editorial position, and, in 2012, the right to legal abortions. Significant ongoing human rights concerns include poor prison conditions, torture, and arbitrary restrictions on reproductive rights.

     

  • Argentina: Investigate Police Action at Hospital Protest
    May 1, 2013

    Argentina should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations of excessive use of force by the City of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police to disperse a demonstration at a public psychiatric hospital.

  • Argentina: Reject Interference with Judicial Independence
    Apr 24, 2013

    The Argentine Congress should reject proposals by the Fernández de Kirchner administration to reform the justice system because they would undermine judicial independence, Human Rights Watch said today.

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    Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina
  • Decisions Denied
    Women’s Access to Contraceptives and Abortion in Argentina
  • Reluctant Partner
    The Argentine Government's Failure to Back Trials of Human Rights Violators
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Argentina

  • Argentina: Investigate Police Action at Hospital Protest
    May 1, 2013

    Argentina should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations of excessive use of force by the City of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police to disperse a demonstration at a public psychiatric hospital.

  • Argentina: Reject Interference with Judicial Independence
    Apr 24, 2013

    The Argentine Congress should reject proposals by the Fernández de Kirchner administration to reform the justice system because they would undermine judicial independence, Human Rights Watch said today.

  • The disabled often are denied information about sex and HIV
    Dec 1, 2012
    Over a billion people — 15 percent of the world’s population — live with a disability. These numbers should confer power and authority in decision making about all aspects of their lives, including to HIV and AIDS. Yet people with disabilities have been largely ignored in the global response to HIV.
  • Argentina: Letter to President Cristina Fernandez on Venezuela inclusion into MERCOSUR
    Aug 3, 2012
  • Brazil: Letter to President Dilma Rousseff on Venezuela inclusion into MERCOSUR
    Aug 3, 2012
  • In Argentina, Court Reaches Out to Rape Victims
    Apr 1, 2012
    The Argentine Supreme Court's ruling earlier this month in the case of A.G., a 15-year-old girl who became pregnant after her stepfather raped her, does not decriminalize abortion. But it does humanize the judicial process for rape victims seeking timely medical intervention after suffering unspeakable violence.
  • Protecting Women From Unsafe Abortions in Argentina
    Apr 13, 2011
  • Argentina's Slow Tango With Women's Lives
    Nov 24, 2010
    In five days I will be addressing Argentina's House of Representatives about abortion. The occasion is as deliberately momentous as it is intentionally inconsequential. On the one hand, this is the first time Argentina's national congress has debated the legalization of abortion, and the hearing has been advertised in the national media for weeks. At the same time, the opening of this landmark debate has been scheduled in the last hours of the last legislative session this year, on a day of the week usually reserved for internal meetings.
  • Argentina: Guarantee Women’s Access to Health Care
    Aug 10, 2010
    Thousands of women and girls in Argentina suffer needlessly every year because of negligent or abusive reproductive health care.
  • Human Rights Watch Amicus Brief on Juvenile Detention
    Jul 18, 2008
    Human Rights Watch filed an amicus brief in the case of García Méndez, Emilio and Musa, Laura Cristina s/case No. 7537 that is now before the Supreme Court of Argentina. We argue that the system by which Argentine judges authorize the detention of children under 16 years of age in conflict with the law violates international human rights law set forth by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). It also contradicts basic principles outlined in the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules), and the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty.
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