United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said measures enforced by President Javier Milei’s administration are detrimental to human rights. “In Argentina, recent proposed and adopted measures risk undermining human rights protection,” Türk said on Thursday during the 56th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Some of its goals are related to the climate crisis, which Milei denies is rooted in human activity. In January, three special rapporteurs said Security Minister Patricia Bullrich’s anti-protest protocol goes against international human and civil rights treaties that Argentina is party to. Similarly, the International Monetary Fund, with whom Argentina has a US$44 billion debt, has applauded Milei’s austerity measures but consistently asked his government to “support the vulnerable.”

Source: Bueno Aires Herald June 20, 2024 16:29 UTC