Cristina Kirchner took over the agenda with a meeting with members of the OAS for violence against women

Cristina Kirchner resumed the agenda of the post-opening sessions in his office of the Senate of the Nation with different meetings where he highlighted the meeting he held around 5 p.m. with the Committee of Experts of the monitoring mechanism of the Convention of Belém do Pará (MESECVI) of the Organization of American States.

The meeting was held within the framework of the official visit to Argentina to combat violence against women. The delegation was led by the Chairman of the Committee of Experts, Marcela Huaita Alegreof Peru, accompanied by experts Leila Linhares Barstedfrom Brazil; Lourdes Montero Justinian, from Bolivia; And Sylvia Mesa Peluffo, from Costa Rica; and by the Technical Secretariat of the MESECVI, Luz Patricia Mejia Guerreroand the person in charge of communication, Tatiana Benza. In addition, the independent expert from Argentina participated, Susana Charotti.

The delegation first met with a group of senators, then spent more than an hour in the vice president’s office.

At the end of the meeting, Huaita Alegre pointed out that they were doing a survey of women who have suffered political violence. “We have offered technical assistance to the United States and Argentina has accepted and we are workingsaid the OAS official.

“We have meetings with different authorities to listen to progress, challenges and obstacles. We meet people who experience political violence and we are finishing the report,” he added.

Without receiving any questions from the aforementioned journalists, OAS officials announced that a press conference would be held tomorrow afternoon to explain the data collected.

This is the first visit carried out by the Committee of Experts in the framework of a technical assistance mission after receiving the request from the Argentine State.

The meeting with Cristina Kirchner is also part of the assassination attempt suffered by the former president on September 1, 2022 when Fernando Sabag Montiel approached with a gun intending to shoot him. This is the most emblematic case of political violence against a woman since the return of democracy.

The Committee has already spoken out and expressed concern over the attack on the Vice President and called on Argentina “to act with enhanced due diligence to prevent, investigate and punish the aforementioned acts against Cristina Fernández”.

The Mesecvi is made up of one expert from each member country of the OAS and is responsible for monitoring the Convention of Belén do Pará in each member state. In the case of Argentina, the expert is the lawyer Suzanne Chiarotti.

The Inter-American Convention to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Violence Against Women was adopted in Belém do Pará, Brazil, in 1994, formalizing the definition of violence against women, both in the public sphere and private, as a violation of their human rights.

Although Argentina has acceded to the Convention, it has no constitutional status. In 2022, there was a bill in the Chamber of Deputies which aimed to bring it to this level. However, he was frustrated because two-thirds of both houses of Congress are needed for it to pass.

Anyway, in 2019, Parliament sanctioned Law 26485 as another form of gender-based violence that affects women.

Continue reading: