HUMAN RIGHTS

Law 26,691

Declare Sites of Memory of State Terrorism, to the places that functioned as clandestine centers of illegal repression. Sanctioned: June 29, 2011 Enacted: July 27, 2011

The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, meeting in Congress, etc., are sanctioned by law:

PRESERVATION, SIGNALING AND DISSEMINATION OF STATE TERRORISM MEMORY SITES

Article 1-State Terrorism Memory Sites, hereafter Sites, to the places that functioned as clandestine detention centers, torture and extermination, or where they happened emblematic of the actions of the illegal repression The Council of the European Union, which was held in the country until 10 December 1983, was developed during the State's terrorism.

Article 2-The national executive branch will guarantee the preservation of all the Sites for the purpose of facilitating judicial investigations, as well as for the preservation of the memory of what happened during state terrorism. our country.

ARTICLE 3-All the Sites in respect of which there were sufficient evidence on its functioning as Sites are included in the scope of this Law. For these purposes, the report produced by the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Conadep), the testimonies discharged in court proceedings and the records of the National Archives of the Memory dependent on the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation.

ARTICLE 4-It will be the enforcement authority of this law, the Human Rights Secretariat, which is dependent on the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.

ARTICLE 5-The implementing authority shall have the following functions: (a) To urge the competent bodies to implement the necessary measures to facilitate the judicial investigation of the serious human rights violations occurring in the Sites referred to in Article 3 (b) Cooperate with the specific areas of the national, provincial and municipal levels, in the creation of entities with functional autonomy and financial autarquia that have the mission of ensuring the preservation of the places that functioned as Sites and the recovery and the transmission of the memory of the facts

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(c) To transmit the historical memory of the events that occurred during state terrorism and especially the violations of human rights committed at the Sites; (d) Coordinate with provincial bodies, The municipality of Buenos Aires, competent in the area of promotion and defense of human rights, programs, activities and actions included in the spirit of this law; Sites, incorporating all those properties that respond to the features (f) Publish the payroll of buildings identified to date, informing all the provinces and municipalities and the general public, the high value that the country has for preserving the memory of the serious (g) To request the national authorities in whose jurisdiction the buildings referred to in Article 3 are to be reviewed, the provision of adequate space for the development of the activities for dissemination, promotion, preservation and research; (h) Request to the authorities national in whose jurisdiction the buildings set out in Article 3 are reviewed, which are declared in whole or in part unnecessary for their specific management and are affected by the application authority's orbit, where the circumstances are meriten.

ARTICLE 6-In order to preserve as Sites all those buildings in which acts of torture, extermination, reduction to servitude, forced disappearance of persons or other vexativities were committed, the implementing authority shall: (a) Dispose for each one of the Sites, a brand that determines it as Sites accompanied by an allusive legend of repudiation of the facts that happened there. For the design of this brand, the implementing authority should call a public contest whose jury will be integrated on the proposal of human rights organizations with a recognized trajectory in the struggle for memory, truth and justice. This mark will be approved by the implementing authority, as a national convention, although not exclusive of others, for all Sites; b) Promote all kinds of educational, research, training and dissemination activities related to the This is the case, as well as, related to the unrestricted defense of human rights and full citizen participation as pillars of the democratic system; c) Promote, promote or sponsor specific projects of preservation and collection, systematization and preservation of documentary and testimonial material, ensuring the full participation of the human rights organisations of recognised trajectory; (d) encouraging the participation of national universities or other educational institutions to cooperate in the study and systematic research of historical events occurring during state terrorism; and) Promote management, articulating the specific areas of the national, provincial, municipal, and Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, as appropriate, actively encouraging the participation of civil society through bodies with a wide range of promotion and defence of human rights, survivors, families of victims and social organisations; f) Establishing appropriate channels for permanent consultation with human rights organisations and civil society organisations in the design of public memory policies.

Article 7-The implementing authority shall actively assist the existing self-employed or self-employed persons, or those who in the future are created in order to preserve the Sites, and recover the memory of the site, without prejudice to their respective functional autonomies.

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Article 8-The provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are invited to adhere to this law, in order to make way for the reconstruction of our past and a symbol of what must never be repeated in our country.

ARTICLE 9-Commune to the national executive branch. GIVEN IN THE SESSION HALL OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN BUENOS AIRES, AT THE TWENTY-NINE DAYS OF THE MONTH OF JUNE OF THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN. -REGISTERED UNDER NO. 26,691-JULY C. C. COBOS. -EDUARDO A. FELLNER. -Enrique Hidalgo. -Juan H. Estrada.

Date of publication: 29/07/2011

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