Overview
- Human-rights figures filed a federal complaint against Senator Carolina Losada over her proposal to increase criminal penalties for false denunciations and false testimony.
- The filing, led by former judge Carlos Rozanski with Liliana Hendel and Dora Barrancos, alleges a plan of coercion and lists possible crimes including coercion, aggravated concealment, abuse of authority, breach of duty, and advocacy of crime.
- The draft would raise penalties for false denunciation from months to up to 3–6 years in cases tied to gender violence, sexual crimes, or minors, and increase false-testimony ranges to as much as 3–8 years.
- An official review by the prosecutors’ gender observatory found alleged false complaints make up about 0.09% of more than 8.2 million cases, with most tied to property or labor disputes rather than gender or intrafamily violence.
- CEDAW, the UN committee on discrimination against women, urged Argentina in February 2026 to withdraw the reform, warning it could deter victims from reporting in a country where 77% of women who suffer partner violence never file a report.