The senator for Neuquén, Oscar Parrilli, promoted a project to create the University of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayowhich would absorb the current University Institute of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, created eight years ago. The university will be oriented to the defense, promotion and protection of human rights, which would be granted “university rank” through its creation, as explained by the senator. The project was dealt with in commissions, although without the support of the opposition. A plenary of the Commissions for Education and Culture and the Nation’s Budget and Treasury signed last Tuesday the opinion for the creation of the institution. Now you must go to the venue for approval.
In his exhibition, barbecue He maintained that the defense of human rights is “a fundamental and essential issue of democratic life” and that for this reason “you have to know them, you have to teach them, you have to train, you have to train.” “There must be a whole society that understands the importance and validity of human rightsrespect and that this be like today,” Parrilli said. “Democracy is a value that we all welcome and that we all defend and that, beyond our political differences, we can say that we are all subject to the will of democracy where the people, through elections, define who leads and governs,” he added.
Parrilli also spoke about the need to give autonomy to the institution through the project. “The merely autarkic nature of the Institute does not guarantee the continuity of the work that would be incumbent on the university, since any change of ownership -not only of the Executive- but of the Ministry (of Justice) itself, can impose the course that the new authority determined, since its autarky is also conditioned by the resources assigned to it,” explained the senator. In addition, he affirmed that the University will help protect the archives of the current institute, since they “they can not be at the mercy of any future political conjuncture, and must be guarded by an entity with the due guarantee of constitutional autonomy, which would be the depository, custody and conservator of that cultural and historical heritage of our Nation, open to researchers from all over the world “.
During the plenary session where the project was discussed, the senator for Tierra del Fuego, Maria Eugenia Duré (Front of All), He pointed out that “when we talk about education we don’t talk about expenses, but about investment”, celebrating the initiative to form the University, which should be “a national emblem and a national pride, as they are all in Argentina”, according to his words . Duré took advantage of his speech to question macrismoalleging that “we already lived what were four years of cuts” and that what is sought with this project is that “any citizen has free access to education.”
In clear difference with the enthusiasm that there is in the ruling party with the project, from the opposition they affirm that the house of studies has an irregular personnel appointment. “The National Interuniversity Council says in an opinion that the appointments of teachers and non-teachers are made without compliance with the collective labor agreements. These academic conditions make me think that we are not at a time to authorize this growth to a university,” he said. flavio fameUCR senator.
