Provincial Commission for Memory
The Provincial Commission for Memory was created by legislative resolution of the Chamber of Deputies of the province of Buenos Aires No. 2117 of 1999, and ratified by provincial law 12,483 of 13 July 2000 and its amendment, law 12,611 of 20 December 2000. It is made up of representatives of civil society organizations that have experience working on human rights issues, intellectuals, university and judicial officials, artists, religious people of different faiths, legislators and trade unionists. The Commission preserves information on the human rights violations that took place during the last military dictatorship and carries out policies to raise awareness in this area, aimed at preventing further human rights violations. Among these policies, the Commission is in charge of managing the site of the Quilmes's Investigation Brigade, previously part of the Buenos Aires Province Police, which used to be a clandestine detention center and is now a museum that addresses human rights issues.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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