A/HRC/53/5 agreements of the democratic system and generated complicated contexts for guaranteeing the enjoyment of human rights. 9. Another major challenge to ensuring the enjoyment of human rights was the practice of “lawfare” (“legal warfare”), under which criminal cases were brought against leaders of social or political movements, resulting in a loss of the judiciary’s legitimacy. The practice had led to regressive policies in the field of human rights, and had been directed only against political leaders who represented the working class, with the sole purpose of removing them from the political stage. 10. Among measures taken in the field of human rights, the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons had been confirmed at the constitutional level, taking precedence over domestic law, and a mechanism for the selection of candidates to international human rights systems had been created. 11. Once again, the process of memory, truth, justice and reparation for crimes against humanity had become a State policy in Argentina. Major progress had been made in the prosecution of those responsible for serious human rights violations, with 1,117 people convicted of crimes against humanity. Thanks to the efforts of the group Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, and with the support of the National Commission on the Right to an Identity and the Strategic Plan for the Advancement of Trials for Crimes against Humanity (launched in 2020), 132 people had determined their identity. 12. The Dr. Fernando Ulloa Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations provided assistance to an average of 250 victims of State terrorism per month. The Special Unit for the Investigation of Crimes against Humanity Committed for Economic Gain had been reactivated. Nearly 250 sites of remembrance were marked with plaques, the opening of four new sites in different provinces was planned and the Campo de Mayo Place of Remembrance was to be created. Moreover, a dossier in support of the designation of the Navy School of Engineering Place of Remembrance Museum as a World Heritage site had been formally submitted to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 13. The current Government promoted cultural change to eradicate institutional violence by law enforcement officials. To that end, the Secretariat for Human Rights had appeared as amicus curiae in various emblematic cases of police violence in different provinces of the country, and had maintained a firm position of public repudiation in each of those cases. Congress was studying a draft comprehensive bill against institutional violence, and the security forces were being trained in human rights issues. 14. The prison situation was of enormous concern, in particular the prison overcrowding in several provinces of the country and the abusive use of pretrial detention. In 2017, the National Committee for the Prevention of Torture had been established, and the creation of local mechanisms for the prevention of torture had been promoted. Such mechanisms had already been established in 17 jurisdictions. 15. In relation to women deprived of liberty, various strategies had been designed, with a focus on pregnant women and women living with their children in prisons. A specific programme for transgender persons in prison had been put in place. 16. In December 2019, the Ministry for Women, Gender and Diversity had been created and, in 2020, the National Cabinet for the Mainstreaming of Gender Policies and the system for labelling budget items with a gender and diversity perspective had been established. The National Action Plan for Combating Gender-based Violence for the period 2022–2024 comprised more than 100 measures for combating the most extreme forms of gender-based violence. 17. In 2021, the Diana Sacayán-Lohana Berkins Act on the Promotion of Access to Formal Employment for Transvestite, Transsexual and Transgender Persons had been enacted, and the Lohana Berkins-Diana Sacayán Central Register of Transvestite, Transsexual and Transgender Job Seekers had been created. 18. The Ministry of Health, which was downgraded to a Secretariat during the previous Administration, had been re-established. The work of the National Directorate for Sexual and Reproductive Health of the Ministry had been prioritized. The Act on Access to Voluntary GE.23-03427 3