by One month after the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowksi, the humanitarian organization Amnesty International launched a “global urgent action” on Monday to demand that the femicide investigation be carried out in an “effective, impartial and independent, timely and with a gender perspective”.
Through a press release, the organization reported that the initiative consists of encouraging its followers and activists in more than 160 countries to send letters to the special team of Chaco prosecutors in charge of the case. “Urgent action is a solidarity strategy promoted by Amnesty International whereby thousands of people from all over the world come together to demand respect for human rights“, they explain from Amnesty about the “global urgent action”.
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“When Amnesty International learned that one or more people are at extreme riskactivates a network made up of tens of thousands of people who unite their ability to send letters and email messages as quickly as possible to the country in question”.
“The world is watching what happens in the case of Cecilia. In a context where the defendants have a strong link with political power It is imperative that the State guarantee an effective, impartial, independent, timely investigation and with a gender perspective to shed light on what happened and that the victims can access effective reparation,” said Mariela Belski, executive director of Amnesty International Argentina.
In the letter that the activists sent to the Special Prosecutor Team (EFE), especially addressed to the Attorney General of Chaco, Jorge Cáceres Olivera, the provincial State was required to investigate the disappearance and possible femicide of Cecilia “in accordance with the legal standards they seek address all forms of violence against women“, as well as that” the duty of enhanced diligence was guaranteed.
In line with Belski’s statements, they demanded that the investigation be “urgent, exhaustive, effective, independent, impartial, timely and with a gender perspective”, with the aim of “clarify the facts and convict those responsible”. In addition to this, they asked the courts to guarantee the “participation of the victim’s relatives in the search and in all phases of the criminal process.” Regarding the Sena family, the agency described them as “powerful local leaders” that “were pre-candidates for the recent provincial elections”.
“After a month of being unaware of Cecilia’s parade, it is of the utmost importance that the prosecution team ensure that all available legal actions are taken to establish what happened to Cecilia, in an effective and timely manner,” it read. “We urge you to send an unequivocal message that gender-based violence will not be tolerated and will not go unpunished“concludes the letter.
Argentina, a country with “a pattern of systematic impunity”
In addition to demanding an impartial and independent investigation in the context of the disappearance and alleged femicide of Cecilia, the agency declared the existence of “a pattern of systematic impunity in the prosecution and judicial prosecution in cases of violence against women” in Argentina. In this regard, the accusation was made after “Most of these cases do not have effective investigation, punishment and reparation”.
Along these lines, the agency explained that in the country there was a case of femicide every 35 hours in 2022, with 167 of the 252 deaths occurring in contexts of violence in the domestic sphere. The province of Chaco is the second with the highest rate of femicideaccording to data from the National Registry of Femicides of the Argentine Justice.
“Given this reality, it is essential that the Judiciary adopt all the resources at its disposal to urgently advance the investigation, break the cycle of impunity, guarantee the protection of the lives of women and girls and ensure that cases of gender violence are addressed in accordance with national, regional and international human rights standards. prevent new and possible cases of gender violenceand victims must be able to access effective reparation,” the letter states.
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