Victoria Donda Pérez ceased to be the controller of the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI). The now former official confirmed her departure from that position this Thursday, December 29, after three years in office, being one of the officials who has accompanied the management of President Alberto Fernández since the beginning of his term, in December 2019.
Donda’s designation at the head of the organization had been extended by a presidential decree on October 13, 2022 and was valid until December 31. In a statement explaining her departure, the former official used a critical tone with the management. “Today I write these lines moving away from my institutional role as head of INADI, rightly convinced that it stopped listening where it should be done the most.”
In the same sense, he maintained: “Strongly aggravating the foregoing, due to the fact that I am a woman and cannot find a legitimate space in the national government for our voices to be duly heard, a few minutes ago I found out through Juan Manuel Olmos, head of Advisors of the Presidency, about the possibility of my removal from INADI, mainly as a consequence -according to what I was informed- of my political position regarding the current stage, an element that I made visible on repeated occasions in my public speech “
Before Donda left his position, the organization had released a management report as a balance for the year 2022. There he highlighted the receipt of 2,542 complaints throughout the period, with gender violence being the main problem for which people come to the body. Discrimination in the workplace, particularly towards women, follows as the main topic among the concerns of the complainants.
According to the INADI survey, 50% of the statements were made by people of the female cis gender, 42% by male cis people, while 3.15% were reported by female trans people, 1.57% by non-binary gender , 1.55% legal persons and 1.14% trans masculine, all according to the categorization carried out by the organization itself.
“There are almost 6% of trans and non-binary people who made complaints, which is a higher percentage than what there is in society, they are overdiscriminated,” agency officials told the Télam agency.
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