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Buenos Aires, March 28th (EFE) .- Amnesty International (AI) denounced the “lack of effective measures” to combat violence against women and girls in Argentina, an issue that has caused “deep concern” for the past year the people gave rights organization.
In its annual report on the state of human rights in the world, Amnesty recalled that in 2021 there were “at least” 256 femicides in the South American country, which corresponds to one death every 34 hours.
According to the document, in many cases the victims filed “multiple reports” against the perpetrator of the femicide, the restraining orders were ignored, or the attacker was a member of the state security forces.
“These cases demonstrated the lack of public policies and effective measures to address gender-based violence and the lack of a gender perspective on the part of law enforcement officials,” the report stressed.
The London-based organization also found that the pandemic in Argentina “exacerbated pre-existing gender inequalities,” with an increase in household chores and unpaid caregiving, tasks that fall primarily to women.
DIFFICULTIES IN ACCESSING ABORTION
In late 2020, Argentina sanctioned the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Law (IVE), a regulation allowing legal, safe and free abortions up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.
During the first year of application, according to Amnesty, there were “difficulties” in accessing abortion, situations of “abusive use” of conscientious objection clauses, “delays” in public and private health centers and “oversaturation” of the 0800 documented hotline for abortion advice.
“No national or local authority has launched a massive campaign to provide information on access to abortion,” the human rights organization said, adding that as of December 2021 there were at least 37 open court cases against this law, which is still in effect.
More than 25,000 abortions were performed under the IVE law in the first half of 2021, according to the Mirar Project, an observatory funded by the Center for State and Society Studies. EFE
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