An official report that will be presented tomorrow before the United Nations Human Rights Council, in which the Government speaks of the “lawfare” violating basic guarantees in Argentina, aroused criticism from the opposition that called it “painful ” and “embarrassing”. In addition, from Together for Change they demanded Alberto Fernández and his chancellor, Santiago Cafiero, to intercede with the official responsible for the area to have the report withdrawn.
This is the Secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla, politically aligned with Cristina Kirchner. The 29-page report is part of the Universal Periodic Review to which each country that is part of the UN Human Rights Council submits. Argentina’s turn is tomorrow followingnoon, and at the beginning there will be a presentation by Pietragalla and the Argentine representative in Geneva, Federico Villegas Beltrán.
In this text, the country analyzes situations related to human rights, including chapters on gender or institutional violence, eradication of poverty, access to health or education, among others. In addition, he included a chapter where he talks regarding “emerging issues”, where he mentions “hate speech”, the attack on the vice president, and also “lawfare”. “Another of the challenges facing our country is the phenomenon of “lawfare” or “legal warfare”. The current National Government and the human rights movement warn that the practice of lawfare – promoted by sectors of the Judiciary, the political opposition and concentrated sectors of economic and media power – constitutes a practice that violates human rights and operates as a condition of the electoral processes, of the political agenda and of public opinion”, they state.
From Together for Change they did not take long to issue a statement repudiating the report. “Unusually they accuse their own country of violating human rights, to thus seek impunity for the crimes of multimillion-dollar corruption of their previous Kirchner government,” they maintain.
In addition, they “apologize to the international community for the opprobrium that lying to the United Nations implies” and reject the epithet of “criminal indebtedness” that the report uses to qualify what was done by the previous administration.
“The purpose they are pursuing through this maneuver is to justify before the international community the attack that the national government is carrying out once morest independent justice to cover itself under a cloak of impunity once morest the well-founded and proven actions of corruption,” concludes the release.
Earlier, the Civic Coalition had also released a statement on its own, in which they described what happened as an “international role” and said that “the report is a shame and violates our history in terms of human rights.”
Other leaders later came out to repudiate in a personal capacity, such as Patricia Bullrich, who said that “before the UN the Argentine government destroys the defense of human rights.” “Just when we are regarding to celebrate 40 years of democracy. He talks regarding the CFK trial, attacks the Justice and continues with his story. The government document embarrasses us in front of the world,” she asserted.
Fernando Straface, spokesman for Horacio Rodríguez Larreta on the international agenda, considered on Twitter: “On Monday the government of @alferdez, angry with the division of powers, is going to denounce the Human Rights/UN Commission that there is “lawfare” in AR and “legal warfare”. Tuesday will host three dictatorships that trample on the rule of law. International consistency that damages the AR image”.
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