A/HRC/8/52 page 198 police to judge its own officers, and called on Argentina to reform the Ley Organica de la Policía Federal and Act No. 21.695.965. Finally, the fact that the Security Secretariat was recently transferred within the competence of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, to which also the Human Rights Secretariat belongs, raised further alarm. 628. The Comisión Jurídica para el Autodesarrollo de los Pueblos Originarios Andinos, with reference to recommendations 15 and 16 of the report of the Working Group regarding the protection of indigenous peoples, noted that they should be taken into account for the resolution of potential conflicts related to the social impact of the operations of mining industries on the lands of indigenous peoples. 629. The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions welcomed the attention paid to indigenous issues, especially indigenous rights to land, and of women, children and other members of vulnerable groups in the universal periodic review of Argentina. It was noted that the Argentinean national report made no reference to the realization of particular standards as defined, inter alia, in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, notably the right to an adequate standard of living for all. The lack of security of tenure and the continuing increase in forced evictions has not been adequately addressed. Argentina does not have a policy to prevent forced evictions and does not ensure adequate protection for those who lose their houses. The Centre on Housing and Evictions was also concerned that regularization and urbanization programmes in informal settlements are carried out in a discretionary basis and with uncertain results, without the possibility of recourse to judicial or administrative remedies. Argentina should transpose into the domestic legal order United Nations standards concerning housing rights and forced evictions as stated in general comments Nos. 4 and 7 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 630. Action Canada for Population and Development, with reference to paragraphs 16 and 25 of the report of the Working Group, regretted that the discussion of the issue of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights did not result in any recommendation. Implementation of the National Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health mentioned in paragraph 16 is very unequal across the country, due to the lack of political will on the part of some authorities and uneven distribution of contraceptive devices to public hospitals. It noted that unsafe abortion, being the leading cause of maternal mortality, is a problem of social justice because it affects poor women in a disproportionate way. It stressed the importance for the Government to take action to protect women’s and girls’ lives by, inter alia, guaranteeing ample provision of contraceptive devices to stop abortions, regulating the provision of therapeutic abortions that are currently allowed by law, and providing proper medical care to women and girls who have undergone unsafe abortions. 631. The Centre for Women’s Global Leadership stated that, in spite of some legislative advances, Argentina still lacks a clear agenda for women’s rights. In order to implement adequately recommendations 1, 2, 3, 17 and 18 of the report on the review of Argentina, a number of important issues should be addressed, namely the lack of sex-disaggregated official data on violence against women; women’s vulnerability to HIV infection; the steadily decrease of the budget of the Consejo Nacional de la Mujer; the State’s failure to implement the recommendation made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

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