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Discrimination based on political opinion: an Argentine case

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is the distinction between friend and enemy’.

In June 2016, the Labour Court of Appeals of the City of Buenos Aires ruled that the dismissal of an employee from the embassy of Paraguay in Argentina entailed political discrimination, and ordered the embassy to pay economical and moral damages to the plaintiff, on top of severance compensation provided by labour laws for wrongful dismissal.

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