Argentina - Human Rights

<html><head><title>Human Rights in Argentina</title></head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" vlink="#215e21" link="#00009c"> <a href="../../" target="_top"><img alt="Derechos" src="../../img/dere/deresm.gif" border=0 align=left width=110 height=100></a><br> <a target="_top" href="../eng.html"><img alt="Equipo Nizkor" src="../nizkor.gif" border=0 align=right width=186 height=60></a> <center> <p><a target="_top" href="index.html">En Español</a></center> </center> <br><br><br><br> <p> <img alt="" src="../../img/geo/arg-medtr.gif" width=72 height=166 border=0 align=left> <img alt="flag" src="../../img/flags/arge.gif" width=128 height=64 align=right><b> <center><p><font color="#8c1717" size=6>ARGENTINA</font><br> <font size=4>Derechos Humanos</font></b></center> <p> <p><p> <center> <table width=50% border=3 cellpadding=2> <TR> <TD ALIGN=LEFT ROWSPAN=1> <font size=4><center><b> <a target="_top" href="http://www.desaparecidos.org/GrupoF/">Argentinian Torturers and Killers</a> </font> <br></font><font color="red" size=2>The people that went free under the Amnesty Laws in Argentina Please Help! </font></b></center> </td></tr></table></center> <p><p>The dirty war is over, and human rights are generally respected in Argentina. Still, human rights violations are still a real problem in this country. The fate of 30'000 "disappeared" during the dirty war is still unknown and the Government, shielding itself behind two laws that pardoned all those responsible for the tortures and killings, has no plans to investigate what their fate was. Children (teenagers now), taken away from the arms of their disappeared parents, continue to grow away from their real families, not knowing their true identity. Journalists are harassed for writing articles offensive to the government, and sometimes even beaten up or killed. Conditions in jails are inhuman, beatings at police stations commonplace, and disappearances at the hand of the police are not unheard of. Prisoners often stay in jail for years before being tried for their alledged crimes. There is at least one prisoner of conscience, <a href="../../puigjane.html">Fray Antonio Puigjané</a>, who has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for his beliefs.</p> <p>For more information, check the <a href="index.html" target="_top">Spanish language</a> page. <hr><b> <p><font size=+1 color="#8c1717"> List of Argentinian Repressors during the Dirty War<br></font> Presented by the National Comission on the Disappearance of Persons to the Argentine Government in 1984. The Government never made it public, but a magazine as able to find it and publish it. The names of the accussed killers and torturers are given, in addition to the place where they worked. <table width=100% cellpadding=0 border=0> <tr> <td width=50% align=center> <b><a href="http://www.yendor.com/vanished/represores.html" target ="_top">Search for Names</a> </b></td><td width=50% align=center> <b><a target ="_top" href="../../ddhh/arg/represores.txt">List of all - ASCII</a> </b></td></tr></table> <p><center><b><a target ="_top" href="../../lidlip/mil.html">List of Military to be Tried in Italy</a> </center></b> <p><font size=+1 color="#8c1717"><a href="../../soaw/arg-grads-esp.html"> Argentine Military that Graduated from the School of Americas</a></font> <HR> <dl><b> <dt><img alt="" src="../../img/index/wbl.gif" width=20 height=15 align=left><font size=+1> <a target="_top" href="informes-e.html"> Human Rights Reports</font></a> <dd><font size=-1>By National and International Human Rights Organizations</font> <br><br> <dt><img width=20 height=15 alt="" src="../../img/index/bbl.gif" align=left><font size=+1> <a target="_top" href="http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/eng.html">The Disappeared</a> <dd>Info on the Disappeared, their Torturers and Killers and the Dirty War in Argentina<br><br> <dt><img alt="" src="../../img/index/wbl.gif" width=20 height=15 align=left><font size=+1> <a target="_top" href="resoluciones-e.html"> Reports and Resolutions by International Organizations</a> </font></a><font size=-1><dd>UN, OAS, Convension Committees, etc.</font> <br><br> <dt><img width=20 height=15 alt="" src="../../img/index/bbl.gif" align=left><font size=+1> <a target="_top" href="articulos-e.html"> Articles on Human Rights</font></a> <font size=-1><dd>By human rights leaders, activists and academics, offering explanations and solutions for human rights abuses.</font> <br><br> <dt><img width=20 height=15 alt="" src="../../img/index/wbl.gif" align=left><font size=+1> <a target="_top" href="acciones-e.html">Human Rights Appeals</font></a> <font size=-1><dd>Write letters to help end or avoid a human rights violation.</font> <br><br> <dt><img alt="" src="../../img/index/bbl.gif" width=20 height=15 align=left><font size=+1> <a target="_top" href="ley/">Argentine Law</font> </a> <br><br> <dt><img width=20 height=15 alt="" src="../../img/index/wbl.gif" align=left><font size=+1> Addressbook</font></b><dd><li><a target="_top" href="ong.html"> Human Rights Organizations</font></a> <dd><li><a target="_top" href="noticias/"> News and media<dd></a><li><a target="_top" href="gob-e.html">Government Authorities</a> <br><br> <b> <dt><img alt="" src="../../img/index/bbl.gif" width=20 height=15 align=left><font size=+1> <a target="_top" href="../../human-rights/argentina.html">Links on Human Righst in Argentina</a></font> </dl> <hr> <p><center><font face="helvetica"><a href="../la/eng.html">Human Rights in Latin America</a> - <a href="../impu/eng.html">Impunity</a> - <a href="../eng.html">Equipo Nizkor</a> - <a target="_top" href="../../">Derechos</a> - <a target="_top" href="../../human-rights/links.html">Human Rights Links</a> - <a href="../../search.html">Search</a> - <a href="../../contact.html">Contact Us</a></font> <hr> <p> This page is maintained by Gregorio Dionis and Margarita Lacabe. <br><br> <center><a href="http://www.derechos.org/marga/"><img src="http://www.derechos.org/img/marga/day.gif" border=0 alt="marga" width=39 height=36></a> </body></html> </html>