In these forty years, there are many laws that transformed the lives of Argentines. NEWS honored some of those who had a great impact on democratic society. At the event for 40 years of democracy and 34 of this Magazine, the International editor Maximiliano Sardi presented the distinction.
In 1985, the National Congress approved the Shared Parental Powers law, which recognizes the rights of women with respect to their sons and daughters. That change of outlook in the mid-eighties was an achievement of the feminist movements. Lawyer Nelly Minyersky played a prominent role in the conquest of that and many other laws.
The National Education Law passed in 2006 sought to resolve the problems of inequality in access to good quality education. He restructured the educational system and established that the education budget cannot be less than 6% of GDP. The then Minister of Education and current Minister of Science, Daniel Filmus, was key in the articulation of the executive branch with the legislative branch to convey the new norm.
Since 2008, Argentina has had a law known as the “Human Trafficking Law,” the result of the actions of different social actors. Susana Trimarco, mother of Marita Verón, a young woman from Tucumán kidnapped on April 3, 2002 by a network that forced her into prostitution and still keeps her missing, became a tireless activist, whose efforts resulted in the Trafficking Law that today seeks update. News distinguished the persistence of her fight.
In 2010, Argentina established the right to marry people of the same sex. It was the first country in Latin America to recognize that right. The senator, former deputy and current Legal and Technical Secretary, Vilma Ibarra, was a relevant figure in the debate on the Equal Marriage Law. “Rights must be defended. And democracy always has to pay the debts it owes. Everything by building, never destroying. Let’s always move forward,” she said when receiving her award.
Justina Lo Cane was 12 years old when she died in 2017 while waiting for a heart. Regulated in 2019 and known as the Justina Law in her memory, it established that anyone over 18 years of age be an organ or tissue donor unless they expressly state otherwise. Dr. Richard Malan, vice president of INCUCAI, received it.
Gender violence has gained great visibility in recent years. Micaela García was kidnapped, raped and murdered in April 2017 by a repeat criminal who was on parole. The case was taken as a banner of the #Niunamenos movement that promoted the Micaela law for the training of all levels of the State with a gender perspective. Néstor García, Micaela’s father, was one of the promoters of the law and has worked tirelessly to ensure its application. He received in his name María Agustina Díaz.
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