A bill will be debated in the House of Representatives next week, which aims to pursue the “objective of Memory, Truth and Justice.”
The pandemic The global coronavirus pandemic continues to be debated, at least in the Chamber of Deputies. Next Wednesday, they will seek to rule on a proposal that would institutionalize the March 20ththe day they began isolation measures to prevent the circulation of the virusas a day of national mourning.
The project will be discussed in the Commission on Human Rights and Guarantees and stipulates the hoisting of the national flag at half-mast in state establishments and the coordination of commemorative days in educational institutions. The emphasis of the editorial is placed on paying tribute to “the victims of human rights violations during the pandemic” with the “objective of Memory, Truth and Justice.”
In this regard, the document presented by the deputy Sabrina Ajmechet (PRO) It does not focus on the people who died from contracting the disease but on the alleged “arbitrary measures, inaction and abuse of authority” of the previous administration that “had many dark points (sic)”, Considering that on March 20, 2020, “an isolation was decreed that curtailed individual freedoms.”
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Criticism of the management of the pandemic
The content of the project, which has the support of other deputies of the PRO, the UCR and the Civic Coalitionit is considered that with the isolation measures “rights guaranteed by the National Constitution such as free movement and the lawful exercise of industry and commerce. Besides, Schools were closed, prohibiting students from exercising their right to education“.
The project considers itself to be based on an interest of civil society expressed in the “March of the Stones” and a petition promoted on the Change.org platform. “The cases of human rights violations occurred both due to the Implementation of arbitrary measures within the framework of the ASPO as well as as a consequence in some cases of abuse of authority and, in others, due to inaction on the part of the State and security forces,” the text adds.
On the same Wednesday, the Commission on Human Rights and Guarantees called upon specialists and institutions that have worked on cases of Human Rights violations within the framework of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Ambito
