A/HRC/22/4 Introduction 1. The Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), established in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007, held its fourteenth session from 22 October to 5 November 2012. The review of Argentina was held at the 2nd meeting, on 22 October 2012. The delegation of Argentina was headed by Juan Martín Fresneda, Secretary of Human Rights. At its 10th meeting, held on 29 October 2012, the Working Group adopted the report on Argentina. 2. On 3 May 2012, the Human Rights Council selected the following group of rapporteurs (troika) to facilitate the review of Argentina: Austria, Philippines, Uruguay. 3. In accordance with paragraph 15 of the annex to resolution 5/1 and paragraph 5 of the annex to resolution 16/21, the following documents were issued for the review of Argentina: (a) A national report submitted/written presentation made in accordance with paragraph 15 (a) (A/HRC/WG.6/14/ARG/1); (b) A compilation prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in accordance with paragraph 15 (b) (A/HRC/WG.6/14/ARG/2); (c) A summary prepared by OHCHR in accordance with paragraph 15 (c) (A/HRC/WG.6/14/ARG/3). 4. A list of questions prepared in advance by Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was transmitted to Argentina through the troika. These questions are available on the extranet of the UPR. I. Summary of the proceedings of the review process A. Presentation by the State under review 5. The Secretary of Human Rights of Argentina stressed that the Council had refined its procedures to ensure maximum efficiency in the analysis of the human rights situation in the world. The Council, through the UPR - as it was also intended in Argentina - sought to put the person at the centre, as a subject of rights, and to change the paradigms driven by market dictatorship and the absence of the State. 6. Argentina had recovered her dignity as a country through a national and popular project that transformed the structures of an unequal society, establishing the current development process, which included and protected the weak. 7. Argentina lived through two recent tragic experiences, which explained the State’s current commitment to promote and protect human rights. On the one hand, a society that suffered under a terrorist State that perpetrated crimes against humanity in the 1970s was going through a process of memory, truth, justice and reparation. On the other hand, Argentina experienced an economic, social and political tragedy that broke out in the crisis of 2001 because of a State that was absent for more than a decade, and where the loss of labour rights and opportunities for the most vulnerable were considered as variables to adjust in order to achieve economic growth. 8. Since its first review in 2008, Argentina carried out efforts to consolidate the process of justice for crimes against humanity committed in the 1970s. The goal was to reaffirm the 3