Argentina: The government announced the closure of INADI
It's part of Javier Milei's statewide reduction. The Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racism said they had not been notified.
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Argentine presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni announced in his morning address that the government has decided to close the Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism ( INADI ) as part of the reduction of the state structure of the Javier Milei government.
"We are taking the first steps toward dismantling various institutions that are useless, are large political funds, or are used to generate militant employment. The first of these will be the INADI ( National Institute of Statistics and Census). We are beginning to permanently close it," the spokesperson said. "We will no longer finance political schemes or institutions that offer political favors. We cannot force people to continue supporting politics with their taxes," he said.
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Presentes contacted INADI, and they said they hadn't been notified. "Even yesterday, the appointment of the new auditor, María de los Ángeles Quiroga, appeared in the Official Gazette. In any case, it's something we were expecting; they want that trophy for the stands."
The closure of INADI was one of the points of the project "Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines."
"The INADI is the space we LGBTI+ people turn to in the face of the many instances of discrimination that persist in our country, whether in the workplace, education, other institutions, or in public spaces. These tools
empower people to freely live their sexuality and gender identity, categories protected by the American Convention on Human Rights according to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)," said a statement from Orgullo y Lucha, the LGBTI+ organization.
To the Ministry of Justice
Within hours of Adorni's announcement, the Ministry of Justice issued a statement criticizing the efficiency of INADI and announcing that the tasks of "caring for anyone who suffers from any type of discrimination, xenophobia, and/or racism" would be absorbed by that ministry.
The National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racism (INADI) was created in July 1995 through Law 24,515. This followed the attack on the AMIA mutual insurance company, which left 85 dead and 300 injured. Its objective is "the development of national policies and concrete measures to combat discrimination, xenophobia, and racism, promoting and implementing actions to this end," as stated in Article 2 of the law passed on July 5, 1995.
Among its functions, INADI is tasked with designing and promoting educational campaigns aimed at social and cultural pluralism. It is also responsible for eliminating discriminatory, xenophobic, or racist attitudes, and receiving and centralizing complaints about such behavior.
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