Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina)

The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina, known in Spanish as the Ministerio de Justicia, is a ministry of the national executive power charged with enforcing the law and administering the justice system. It was created in 1949, during the first presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, and has been present in every presidential cabinet since then. Its centralized dependencies are organized as secretariats and undersecretariats, among them the Secretariat of Justice, the Secretariat of Human Rights and undersecretariats for penitentiary affairs, criminal policy, access to justice and relations with the judiciary and the academic community. Several bodies depend on it, including the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism, the Inspector General of Justice, the Procuratorship of the Treasure of the Nation and the federal prison system of Argentina. Since 10 December 2023 the minister has been Mariano Cúneo Libarona, in the cabinet of Javier Milei.