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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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