A/HRC/35/41/Add.1 81. Research conducted by the Media Ombudsperson for the City of Buenos Aires shows that social groups such as migrants, Afrodescendants, indigenous peoples, farmers and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are completely marginal in the media. Moreover, it appears that these categories of people have never acted as sources of information in aired stories. On the contrary, when the groups are treated as topics, their own perspective is never sought and generally they are associated to conflict with the law and discussed by others, including security forces, government officials or witnesses of incidents. In this regard, it is also noted that news programmes do not provide socially relevant information to these population groups. The Special Rapporteur hopes that the current Government will continue to support the work of the Media Ombudsperson and use its studies to encourage media actors to provide equal opportunities to all components of society. 82. In Argentina, the configuration of discriminatory sociocultural patterns in audiovisual media translates into the systematic exclusion of some social groups from the media and hinders participation and equal exercise of freedom of expression. This exclusion mirrors the existing social inequalities and amplifies it. It hinders participation in social and political processes and debates. This has a silencing effect since the voices and demands of these marginalized groups are devalued by mainstream media, thereby further entrenching the invisibility of their condition. 83. A study has shown that, in 2010 and 2011, in the context of the deaths of several indigenous children due to malnutrition, referenced earlier, some media and provincial authorities pointed to the cultural practices of the affected indigenous communities as the potential cause. This not only reportedly undermined the debate on the real causes of the issue but also set forth a perverse mechanism of stigmatizing victims and unjustly shifting responsibility.27 84. The Special Rapporteur was informed of instances when public figures had made stigmatizing comments. More recently, the National Minister of Education and Sports was reported to have labelled the opening of a new medical training facility in rural areas as the “conquest of the desert”, making reference to an infamous military campaign that had resulted in the slaughter of indigenous peoples in the 1880s, representing a milestone in the “whitening” of Argentina. The Minister in an effort to correct himself allegedly said that the new conquest of the desert would not be won with a sword but through education, which is dissonant with the commitment to intercultural bilingual education and the recognition of historical injustices in the school curriculum. VI. Good practices in fighting anti-Semitism 85. The Jewish community is well integrated in Argentina. The head of the Human Rights Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, and former head of the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations, informed the Special Rapporteur that there was no widespread expression of violent anti-Semitism in Argentina. 86. The Jewish Community in Argentina has good interactions with the different government agencies and engages actively in capacity-building to fight discriminatory practices in public spheres. This allows for the early and effective reaction to any expression of anti-Semitism. 87. The Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations receives reports of anti-Semitism and discrimination in general and publishes the resulting data, in addition to referring the cases to the relevant authorities. The Internet is the main platform on which anti-Semitic expression has been experienced (47 per cent of complaints received) while such expressions have been declining in the public sphere. 88. In the city of Paraná, province of Entre Ríos, four people were arrested in April 2016 after making anti-Semitic graffiti and Nazi signs in a public park. The local government 27 See footnote 18, pp. 4 and 5. 17