Argentine Government prohibited from eliminating programs on gender violence

Through resolution 11167/2024, the Court ordered the Executive not to dismantle or defund prevention and assistance policies for women and children.

The same week that Javier Milei denied the femicides in Davos, the Federal Court rejected the request to enable the judicial recess with which the government tried to appeal the precautionary measure.

This Friday, the Court prohibited President Javier Milei from eliminating prevention and assistance programs for women and children in situations of gender violence. It did so through resolution 11167/2024 published by the Judicial Recession Chamber A of the Federal National Administrative Litigation Chamber, which ratifies the validity of the precautionary measure that the Government had tried to appeal in order to continue with the adjustment in gender policies.

In this way, the Court rejects the appeal requested by the Executive and denied the authorization of the judicial recess. "The Chamber has just rejected the Government's request to enable and deal with this," said C5N journalist Vanesa Petrillo on the program De Una.

The plaintiff requested the granting of a precautionary measure of non-innovation that would order "the Ministry of Justice and the National Executive Branch to refrain from reducing human resources and institutional infrastructure affected by work dependent on the Undersecretariat for Protection Against Gender Violence and the Access to Justice Centers, and from carrying out other reorganization measures, as well as to support the production and publication of evidence and statistics by these organizations," the official document states.

On Friday, June 28, 2024, the Latin American Team for Justice and Gender (ELA), Ni Una Menos (NUM), the Foundation for the Development of Sustainable Policies (FUNDEPS), Mujeres por Mujeres (MxM) and the Foundation for the Study and Research of Women (FEIM) had filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice and the Executive Branch of the Nation.

The organizations demanded certainty about which body will be responsible for complying with the legal obligations of the National State in terms of violence; what prevention, assistance and access to justice programs will remain in force and, above all, how it will comply with the obligations assumed through regulations and international treaties to which Argentina has adhered.

The Justice had already formally recognized the legitimacy of the organizations to represent the collective of women, girls and adolescents, victims and potential victims of gender violence in a state of multiple vulnerability, and had ordered that the action be registered in the Registry of Collective Processes. This is the first time that an action of this nature has been taken during Milei's government.