A/HRC/8/34 Page 4 established networks of human rights observatories in the different regions of the country to promote public policies as well as to contribute to the strengthening of stakeholders. With regard to the fight against impunity, memory, truth, justice and reparation, the Supreme Court of Justice removed all legal obstacles in the fight against impunity. It declared that crimes against humanity are not subject to statutory limitations, and that the amnesty laws and the pardons of persons tried and condemned for these crimes were unconstitutional. The Argentine Parliament ratified the international treaties that were not yet applicable at the internal level, including those that establish the non-applicability of statutory limitations, and declared null and void the guarantees in the law that guaranteed the impunity of those responsible. 6. Judicial actions are complemented by an active policy to recover the historic memory, being conducted by the State and organizations of the civil society, in line with resolution 2005/66 of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to truth. The association of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo has been working on the right to identity since its creation in 1977 and it has the support of the State through the National Commission on the Right to an Identity (CONADI), created by a law adopted by Parliament. Already 88 children have been able to recover their true identity and establish a link with their biological families. In terms of reparations at the national level, since 1991, a number of norms have been adopted to economically compensate the victims of State terrorism. These norms benefit to former political prisoners, victims of forced disappearances and political executions, children born to mothers deprived of their liberty and or minors detained in relation to their parents’ activities (“Ley de hijos”) and others. In 2004, the clandestine detention centre known as ESMA was also provided for the creation of a space for the memory and for the promotion and defence of human rights. 7. There are however continuing problems related to impunity. The resistance to public policies on the truth and justice are expressed through a strategy of delays in the judicial processes, and a campaign of harassment, including some physical aggressions and in one case of extreme gravity, a disappearance. In the framework of the Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights, the National Plan to assist complainants and victims of the terrorism, as well the national programme for witness protection was established. The Truth and Justice Programme, created in May 2007, is also under the responsibility of the Ministry and has the main goal of strengthening the procedures to guarantee the protection and security of those intervening in the court cases and their families. 8. Regarding the situation of prisons, Argentina is in the process of harmonizing its legislation with international standards. The Supreme Court of Justice declared that the United Nations Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners laid down the standards for all persons deprived of their liberty. In November 2004, Argentina ratified the Optional Protocol to CAT, being the first country in the Americas and the first country with a federal level that has done so. Regarding preventive detention, a number of measures have been taken, in particular judicial and legislative measures. Recent decisions by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation justify however the need to maintain the preventive detention as an exceptional measure which should be applied following strict criteria of legality and not in an indiscriminate manner. Recent decisions by the federal and criminal courts have established that the rights established in international human rights treaties take precedence over procedural norms, as in the case of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, where female prisoners with minor children may be released from prison so that their children may enjoy their right to live with their mothers. 9. With regard to economic, social and cultural rights, these were weakened with the economic crisis and the social exclusion in the 1990s. One of the main purposes of the State is the fight against poverty and exclusion. The Ministry of Social Development has implemented social plans