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[Newsletter] [September 2015] [newsletter] [September 2015] Center for Legal and Social Studies Donate to CELS Piedras 547 | 1er piso | C.A.B.A. +54 11 4334.4200 [email protected] www.cels.org.ar TW: @cels_argentina FB: Centro-de-estudios-legales-y-sociales [newsletter] September 2015 CONTENTS :: STRATEGIC LITIGATION • Mariano Ferreyra crime: appeals court upholds convictions • Housing deficit in the city of Buenos Aires: CELS submits amicus curiae • Chumbivilcas: amicus curiae for crimes of sexual violence in Peru • Police repression of Nam Qom community in Formosa: presentation before IACHR • Court hearing: workers’ right to strike • A protocol for good practices in habeas corpus proceedings :: CAMPAIGNS AND ADVOCACY EFFORTS • Antagonism toward Mental Health Review Body • On the criminal case against Antena Negra • Historic UN recommendations on the right to housing • Selection process for Torture-Prevention Mechanism National Committee • Use of weapons by off-duty police officers :: MEETINGS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES • Territory and Human Rights. Experiences and challenges to rural and indigenous communities’ access to justice | Sept. 17 - 18 | Faculty of Law (UBA) • Drugs: a call for debate| Sept. 22 | UMET • Fracking Tour | Sept. 7 - 11 | United States • Visit by the Vietnamese National Legal Assistance Agency | Sept. 22 | CELS • Documentation Guide for NGOs | Sept. 8 - 9 | Costa Rica • VIII International Seminar on Policies of Memory | Sept. 24 - 25 | CCM Haroldo Conti • The right to health and the aims of medicine | Sept. 28 | Faculty of Medicine (UBA) • Knowing and doing: Intersections between research and management of institutional violence | Sept. 28 | UNSAM :: REGIONAL AND GLOBAL AGENDA • 30th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council • Challenges for the Inter-American Human Rights System: New times, old challenges • Actions on behalf of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students • Regional gathering on migration: Coordination for transformation | Oct. 31-Sept. 2 | Mexico • Human rights violations on the Colombia-Venezuela border • Memory, Truth, Justice and Reparation • Presentation of regional report on drugs • Grupo Mujeres, drug policy and incarceration • Colombia: advising on drug policy and human rights • Contributions to IACHR Annual Report on use of force :: INSTITUTIONAL • Donation to our Institutional Archives • Anniversary of Mariano Witis and Darío Riquelme murders [CENTER FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES] 2 [newsletter] September 2015 :: STRATEGIC LITIGATION Mariano Ferreyra crime: appeals court upholds convictions The 3rd Federal Criminal Court of Appeals ratified the sentences of José Pedraza and Juan Carlos Fernández as well as the rest of those convicted over the Mariano Ferreyra homicide that occurred on October 20, 2010. The decision also extended the sentences of Luis Mansilla and Jorge Ferreyra, two former authorities of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA), by eight months. The ruling is a significant step forward in the effective judicial response to a case involving the murder of Mariano Ferreyra while he was exercising the right to protest, at the hands of armed third parties and with the participation of state agents. Press release What the trial brought to light Press clippings: Caso Mariano Ferreyra: el sindicalista José Pedraza seguirá preso, La Nación. Casación confirmó la condena a 15 años de cárcel contra Pedraza por el crimen de Mariano Ferreyra, Télam. Confirmaron la pena de 15 años de prisión a Pedraza por el crimen de Mariano Ferreyra, Infobae. Housing deficit in the city of Buenos Aires: CELS submits amicus curiae On September 1, CELS submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Buenos Aires Contentious-Administrative and Tax Court. This tribunal must rule on the injunction filed by the organization Poder Ciudadano and the Buenos Aires Office of Public Defense for Minors, demanding that the city government guarantee decent habitat for the residents of the Zavaleta neighborhood in Barracas. On Facebook Press clippings: Las muertes de las no-viviendas de la Ciudad, opinion column by Eduardo Reese, Agencia Paco Urondo. Chumbivilcas: amicus curiae for crimes of sexual violence in Peru The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and some of its member organizations – CELS, CODEPU (Chile), CALDH (Guatemala), CAJ (Argentina) – appeared as amicus curiae in the “Chumbivilcas” trial before the National Criminal Court in Lima, Peru. This is the first judicial proceeding on the rape of indigenous women by Army members during Peru’s armed internal conflict from the 1980s through 2000. CELS’ contribution focused on prosecuting sexual violence 3 [CENTER FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES] [newsletter] September 2015 as a crime against humanity and trying not only the direct perpetrators of the crimes, but also the authorities who gave the orders. FIDH press release Police repression of Nam Qom community in Formosa: presentation before IACHR On September 30, the Formosa police used lead and rubber bullets to repress a protest by members of the Nam Qom indigenous community. Several people were injured, including children. In the days that followed, community members, their attorney Roxana Silva, and the organizations that support them – including CELS – were verbally assaulted by the Ombudsman for the province. CELS, in representation of the Nam Qom community, informed the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the events. Press release Court hearing: workers’ right to strike CELS appeared as amicus curiae in a public hearing convened by the Argentine Supreme Court regarding entitlement to the right to strike. The Court must rule in the trial “Orellano, Francisco Daniel vs. Correo Oficial de la República Argentina”. Orellano and 45 other workers were fired after leading a non-union-organized strike. Our presentation supported the plaintiff’s position, sustaining that the right to strike belongs to the workers, regardless of whether it is endorsed or not by union representation. Press release A protocol for good practices in habeas corpus proceedings CELS submitted a report to members of the Prison Oversight System on the errors committed by judges in habeas corpus proceedings and proposed the creation of a document of good practices. After several working meetings, the document drawn up is the fifth set of recommendations issued by the System and the first to address the role of judges in protecting the rights of persons deprived of their liberty. Representatives of the National Office of Public Defense, the National Prison Ombudsman’s Office, the National Attorney General’s Office and the National Criminal Court of Appeals participated in the process. Press clippings: El Sistema de Control de Cárceles realizó una recomendación sobre hábeas corpus, CIJ. [CENTER FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES] 4 [newsletter] September 2015 :: CAMPAIGNS AND ADVOCACY EFFORTS Antagonism toward Mental Health Review Body The mayor’s office in the city of Buenos Aires sought a precautionary measure to prevent the Mental Health Review Body – created under National Mental Health Law 26,657 with the objective of safeguarding patients’ human rights – from performing its functions in that district. The organizations belonging to the Red Nacional de Salud Mental y Derechos Humanos, of which CELS is a member, voiced our concern over the antagonism toward the body and the law itself. Pronouncement by the Red Nacional de Salud Mental y Derechos Humanos Press clippings: La Ciudad se niega al control de su política de salud mental, InfoNews. On the criminal case against Antena Negra In early September, the offices of the non-profit television station Antena Negra were raided and their transmission equipment seized. The operation was carried out after a criminal case was opened over a complaint filed by the National Communications Commission. The complaint was based on evidence presented by the Argentine Federal Police and the private security company, Prosegur. CELS warned that the use of criminal law and the criminalization of members of the media and other communicators are excessive measures that jeopardize freedom of speech and should be avoided. The channel used by Antena Negra falls under the Audiovisual Communication Services Law (No. 26,522), which establishes a democratic paradigm for the media system and specifies administrative mechanisms for channeling this type of conflict. On October 27, the federal justice system finally dismissed charges against the directors of Antena Negra. Press release Historic UN recommendations on the right to housing The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) published recommendations addressed to the Spanish state in response to a complaint regarding the violation of the right to housing. In doing so, it took into consideration an intervention presented by the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ESCR-Net), of which CELS is a member. CELS participated from the very beginning of the discussion process to arrive at an Optional Protocol to 5 [CENTER FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES] [newsletter] September 2015 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) and campaigned for its entry into effect. ESCR-Net press release Selection process for Torture-Prevention Mechanism National Committee Various organizations and human rights defenders sent a joint letter to the Bicameral Commission of the National Ombudsman’s Office in view of a meeting in which decisions would be adopted to commence the process of designating members of the Torture-
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