Argentina: The closure of the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism has been made official.
It was done through decree 696/2924, which states that the allocated resources will be transferred to the Ministry of Justice.
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Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni announced today the official closure of the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racism (INADI) . This was done through decree 696/2024, which states that the allocated resources will be transferred to the Ministry of Justice.
The National Congress must validate this decree as dictated by Law 26.122. For it not to be validated, both chambers must reject it.
The closure of INADI was one of the points of the project “Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentinians” and its elimination had already been announced in February.
A point of reference
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 was tasked with designing and promoting educational campaigns aimed at social and cultural pluralism. It was also responsible for eliminating discriminatory, xenophobic, or racist attitudes, and for receiving and centralizing complaints about such conduct.
“INADI is the space that people in the LGBTI+ community turn to in the face of the many situations of discrimination that persist in our country, whether in the workplace, in educational settings, in 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 Pride and Struggle, the LGBTI+ organization, in a statement at the time.
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