The IACHR visits, 40 years later | A delegation …

Forty years after the historic arrival of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
, a delegation of the body returns to Argentina. Between Thursday and Friday this week, they will travel to Buenos Aires to participate in various activities on human rights and violence. The agenda begins Thursday at 6 pm with a conference on "Violence and Discrimination against Women, Girls and Adolescents" at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires Aires (UBA).

The IACHR will return this Friday at 10 am to ESMA. In this case, it is not to see the situation of political prisoners and toturados, but for the inauguration of the exhibition "The concealment of the ESMA: the truth is made public In the space of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. "On the basis of unpublished evidence, exhibition of objects and presentation of documents, the ESMA working group has implemented all sorts of strategies to conceal, given the imminent arrival of IACHR, any possible detail suspicion of repressive activity within the place, "detailed by the organization.

One of the peculiarities of this exhibition is that "the routes taken by relatives of missing detainees in search of their loved ones are known: the role of human rights organizations, the pbadage of individual claims to collectives, and complaints lodged with the Commission ", explains the text. The exhibition, which opens this Friday, will take place until December 10 and can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm.

During her stay in the former clandestine detention center, Commissioners Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitino (President of the IACHR), Paulo Abrao (Executive Secretary of the IACHR), Joel Hernández (First Vice President of the IACHR), Antonia Urrejola (Second Vice-President of the IACHR) and Víctor Abramovich (former Vice-President of the IACHR) will join the discussion table "Historical Impacts of the Work of the IACHR and the New Challenges in the Current Regional Context", as well as references from human rights organizations.

The visit is formal, that is to say that there will be no monitoring of the human rights situation on the national territory. Commissioners will take advantage of Friday afternoon to meet with President Mauricio Macri. Since we changed, the IACHR has repeatedly warned against the situation of human rights in Argentina. In July 2017, they asked the state to settle the situation of Jujeña leader, Milagro Sala, outside the prison. In the absence of response from macrismo, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights decided to intervene. The advance of the security forces against the press in the demonstrations in the street is another problem on which the IACHR is attentive and the macrismo turns back.

On Friday, 40 years after the arrival of the Organization of American States (OAS), a report was released a year later, citing complaints and reprehensible practices for human rights violations by the last dictatorship. military In the face of the negative campaign launched by the repressors, the IACHR was in charge of listening to the families of the victims and describing what was really going on.