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Feminist Forum advances proposals to place care at the center of Latin American and Caribbean societies and economies

A space for collective learning, participation and diverse and regional organization: this was the Feminist Forum of the XV Regional Conference on Women held at the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos (Ex ESMA) on November 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de Argentina (AMMAR)

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Argentina

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Women & ESCR

Social Movements & Grassroots Groups

The debt crisis and impacts on human rights; case studies from Haiti, Kenya, Egypt, Jordan, Argentina and Zimbabwe

Globally, countries are facing social, political, economic and environmental crises intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. For low- and middle-income countries these crises have been compounded by debt burdens, constraining governments' ability to respond. This phenomenon has heightened...

Sindicato Obreros Curtidores De La Republica Argentina (SOCRA)

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Argentina

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Environment & ESCR

Women & ESCR

Corporate Accountability

Social Movements & Grassroots Groups

Monitoring

R. C., A. v. Government of the City of Buenos Aires and others on amparo, Case No. A47249/2015

In this case, the right of a student with an intellectual disability to obtain an official diploma attesting to the completion of his secondary school education on an equal basis was challenged in accordance with article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which recognizes the right to inclusive education and prohibits any form of discrimination based on disability.

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2020

Webinar: Building a Feminist Future: Towards a feminist and human-rights-based global social pact on care

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Inter-American Court Recognizes Rights to Food, Water, Healthy Environment, and Cultural Identity in Lhaka Honhat Case

In Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held that Argentina violated its obligations under Article 1.1 of the American...

Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia and others v. EN-M Educación on amparo under Law 16.986, Case No. 26701/2015

The Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ), the Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC), the Asociación Síndrome de Down de la República Argentina (ASDRA) and the Red por los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad (REDI) filed a collective action for protection with the aim of having the National State (Ministry of Education - National Directorate for Information and Evaluation of Educational Quality) take the necessary measures to produce sufficient and appropriate information on the educational trajectories of students with disabilities.

Indigenous Community Members of the Lhaka Honhat (Our Land) Association vs. Argentina

Indigenous community members from the Lhaka Honhat Association sued Argentina on behalf of 132 Indigenous communities belonging to the Wichí (Mataco), Iyjwaja (Chorote), Komlek (Toba), Niwackle (Chulupí), and Tapy'y (Tapiete) peoples who live on lots with the cadastral registrations 175 and 5557 in the Province of Salta (previously known as and referred to in the case as lots 14 and 55).

Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia, Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia), Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS); Fundar (Centro de Análisis e Investigación); Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos (INESC);

A regional civil society Initiative for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy in Latin America calls on States to undertake broad fiscal redistribution, and on multilateral institutions to free up fiscal space, in order to avoid dire human rights consequences.

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