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The social and economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic continued to impact groups in vulnerable situations. There were several attacks on journalists and the media, threatening freedom of expression. Record rates of imprisonment resulted in inhumane prison conditions. Deaths in prison remained a concern. Violence against women and girls continued to escalate, with a rise in the number of reported femicides and child killings. Although some military personnel were prosecuted for ordinary offences amounting to crimes against humanity committed during the civil-military regime (1973-1985), no substantive progress was made in clarifying the fate of those forcibly disappeared under that regime.

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