The IACHR arrives this week in the country, 40 years after the historic visit under the dictatorship – Telam

A delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will arrive this week in the country, forty years after the historic visit that the organization made in September 1979 to collect information and complain about the 39, kidnapping and torture, and which confirmed the crimes committed by the last dictatorship.

The delegation, which will remain between Thursday and Friday in Buenos Aires, will be composed of the current president of the IACHR, Esmeralda Arosemena; the first vice-president, Joel Hernández; Commissioner Antonia Urrejola; Executive Secretary Paulo Abrão; Constanza Argentieri, promotion coordinator, and Erick Mendoca, secretary general specialist.

According to Telam sources of the IACHR, the visit would be formal and would have for main reason the commemoration of the 60 years of the commission and the 40 years of the visit in the country during the dictatorship; In other words, in this case, there will be no monitoring of the human rights situation.

Among the activities planned by the delegation, on Thursday, at 6 pm, they will participate in an event on "Violence and discrimination against women, girls and adolescents", at the Faculty of Law of the 39, University of Buenos Aires, Fridays at 10 o'clock. , will take part in the inauguration of an exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, in the former ESMA, and in the afternoon they will meet President Mauricio Macri.