The National Commission for the Right to Identity (CoNaDI) yesterday presented and inaugurated the new facilities of the National Program on the Right to Biological Identity, in order to coordinate and centralize public policies aimed at protecting and guaranteeing the right to identity. The activity was attended by the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation Horacio Pietragalla Corti; the director of CoNaDI, Claudia Carlotto; the executive secretary of the agency, Manuel Gonçalves; and the coordinator of the Program, María Gracia Iglesias.This program has the mission of addressing the problem of the violation of the right to identity for cases not related to crimes against humanity. It is intended for all people born in Argentina who do not know their biological origins without distinction of their date of birth, and for people who are looking for daughters or sons born in Argentina and from whom they were separated at birth.” All of us who go through a situation of search for identity, know the importance of this right and of a present State that guarantees it, “reflected Pietragalla Corti at the opening of the event. At the same time, he ratified the commitment to “put all the push to carry out a campaign that reaches each of the mothers who are looking for a son or daughter, and each of the sons and daughters who have doubts.”
For his part, Carlotto stressed that to address this new task, 22 workers were incorporated and trained, who will perform their functions in the new offices in Buenos Aires and in their headquarters in Córdoba and Bariloche, destined to the face-to-face attention of the center and south of the country. In this sense, the director of CoNaDI said that the realization of the program is the result of an effort to “create a State policy as appropriate, with trained people and including civil society organizations, making available all our experience.”
“All of us who are here today, we are here thanks to the mothers who went out to look for their sons and daughters, also their grandchildren and granddaughters. And that they were, above all, discussing in this society the value of the right to identity, “said Gonçalves at the close of the speeches. The activity concluded with the presentation of an audiovisual preview of the national campaign that will be developed with the aim of convening to the CoNaDI mothers who are looking for their daughters and sons, from whom they were separated at birth for different reasons and without distinction of date. The presentation was also attended by the head of the Specialized Unit for Cases of Appropriation of Children during State Terrorism, Pablo Parenti; the director of the Registry of Persons of the Province of Buenos Aires, Mariano Ríos Ordoñez; and authorities of the National Genetic Data Bank and the Human Rights Directorate of the Foreign Ministry.
