Violence against gender

The Lower Chamber approved and referred to the Senate the draft bill that grants constitucional hyerarchy to the Inter American Convention that prevents, eradicates and sanctions violent acts against women endorsed in 1994 in Brazil.

The debate over the bill was attended by a member of the Sub Committee for Torture Prevention at the UN, Emilio Gines, who congratulated legislators that approved the motion..

He highlighted that “Argentina becomes the Latin American leader in questions relating to the struggle against this sort of crimes and he aded that the Treaty, fostered by the Legal and Social Studies Center, has already been ratified by 60 countries