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Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina)

The Ministry of Justice (; MJ) of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power tasked with enforcing of the law and administration of justice.

The ministry was created in 1949, during the first presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, and has been consistently present in every presidential cabinet since then. The incumbent minister is Mariano Cúneo Libarona, who has served since 10 December 2023 in the cabinet of Javier Milei.

Structure

The Ministry of Justice has a number of centralized dependencies reporting to it. The centralized dependencies, as in other government ministers, are known as secretariats (secretarías) and undersecretariats (subsecretarías); there are currently four of these:

  • Undersecretariat of Administrative Management (Subsecretaría de Gestión Administrativa)
  • Secretariat of Justice (Secretaría de Justicia)
  • Undersecretariat of Penitentiary Affairs (Subsecretaría de Asuntos Penitenciarios)
  • Undersecretariat of Criminal Policy (Subsecretaría de Política Criminal)
  • Undersecretariat of Access to Justice (Subsecretaría de Acceso a la Justicia)
  • Undersecretariat of Relations with the Judiciary and Academia (Subsecretaría de Relaciones con el Poder Judicial y la Comunidad Académica)
  • Secretariat of Human Rights (Secretaría de Derechos Humanos)
  • Undersecretariat of Protection and International Links on Human Rights (Subsecretaría de Protección y Enlace Internacional en Derechos Humanos)
  • Undersecretariat of the Promotion of Human Rights (Subsecretaría de Promoción de Derechos Humanos)
  • General Secretariat of Justice and Human Rights (Secretaría General de Justicia y Derechos Humanos)

In addition, the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), the , the , the Inspector General of Justice (Inspección General de Justicia, IGJ), the International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights (CIPDH), the (IUNMA) and Argentina's federal prison system all depend on the Ministry of Justice.

List of ministers

See also

References

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