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Teen pregnancy can be a reproducer of poverty

06-01-2025 07:10 Becoming a mother during adolescence not only disrupts educational paths – it plays a key role in perpetuating poverty both for the young mother and the nation as a whole. Education and teenage pregnancy are also closely linked — those who leave school are more likely to fall pregnant, and those who become pregnant, often drop out.

by Sabrina Chemen

Child poverty in Argentina

Child benefits, food stamps, social policies ‘cannot be a stopgap’

28-09-2024 06:58 In the first half of 2024, child poverty reached 71 percent with over 1.5 million kids newly impoverished, according to a report from the ACIJ NGO. Despite cuts in the budget dedicated to children in diverse programmes, the AUH (Asignación Universal por Hijo) payment is reaching the highest number of people since 2021.

by Sabrina Chemen

MALA MUJER?

Women who decide not to be mothers

03-08-2024 06:20 Increasingly more women are deciding not to be mothers. The trend, extending throughout the Western world, confronts the prejudices of those who believe that being a “good woman” means being a mother.

by Sabrina Chemen

The 15-year-old detainee for the murder of a station attendant.

CRIME & INSECURITY

Juvenile delinquency: Off the grid, immune from prosecution

03-05-2024 11:35 Recent high-profile violence involving minors has put juvenile delinquency in the spotlight once again and President Javier Milei’s government says it wants to lower the age of criminal responsibility.

by Sabrina Chemen

Protesters in front of Congress on Friday on behalf of International Women's Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

8M Rally

'We will be a tsunami' – Green tide fills streets surrounding Congress on 8M

09-03-2024 19:48 Thousands of women of all ages demonstrated near Congress to make their slogans against sexist violence heard.

by Sabrina Chemen

ARMED FORCES

Military issue: The trauma affecting Argentina and its Armed Forces

01-01-2024 01:25 In countries such as Brazil, the United States or Israel, entering the military is often a prestigious and profitable career path, one frequently chosen by individuals across different social classes and strata. But in Argentina, where the shadow of the dark era of the 1976-1983 dictatorship looms large, mistrust of the military remains high.

by Sabrina Chemen

Israel has been at war with Hamas since the terror group’s bloody attack on October 7 and its Army has soldiers from every corner of the globe fighting in its ranks.

CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST

‘On October 7, the first thing I did was call the Army’ – the Argentine soldiers fighting for Israel

30-12-2023 13:50 Israel has been at war with Hamas since the terror group’s bloody attack on October 7 and its Army has soldiers from every corner of the globe fighting in its ranks. These are the stories of Argentines in the Israel Defense Forces.

by Sabrina Chemen

Sculpture 'Reconstruction of the portrait of Pablo Míguez,' by Claudia Fontes.

HUMAN RIGHTS & ART

Pablo: the disappeared child who walks on waters of River Plate

18-11-2023 07:20 From the Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires, an ever steeper path winds up to the shoreline of the River Plate. In the distance, in the water, a child can be seen floating with his back turned, ebbing and flowing with the tide. The story of a unique statue, entitled ‘Reconstrucción del retrato de Pablo Míguez.'

by Sabrina Chemen

FEATURE: SOCIETY & POVERTY

Argentina and the infantilisation of poverty

01-11-2023 05:39 Experts say Argentina is going through a process of “poverty infantilisation” – minors are poorer than the rest of the population, with teens and children in single-parent homes the most vulnerable. Are welfare programmes just a patch or are they preventing the situation from getting worse?

by Sabrina Chemen

CRIME & SECURITY

Organised crime in Argentina: clans, crooked cops and money-laundering

04-09-2023 07:12 In Latin American countries such as Colombia, Mexico or El Salvador, criminal organisations have nearly taken control of their territories. Argentina, on the other hand, steers clear of that kind of violence, but that does not mean those groups do not have a presence here. Clans, money-laundering and complicity.

by Sabrina Chemen

According to estimates, between 350,000 and 700,000 students left school in 2021.

EDUCATION

School dropouts: the pandemic which does not end

04-08-2023 06:12 According to estimates, between 350,000 and 700,000 students left school in 2021. Whether through lack of funds, the pressures of child labour or other challenges, only 10% of Argentina’s pupils end their secondary schooling on time. To tackle the problem, football stars are joining a campaign to challenge the school dropout problem, an issue aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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UNICEF calculates that at least 357,000 children dropped out of school in 2021, with the worst estimates giving a figure of 694,000.

EDUCATION

Lack of classroom days behind drive to private schooling, says polling

03-08-2023 06:15 New survey provides X-ray of Argentina’s education system and reveals teacher strikes are among, main motives for those choosing private education. Women, especially those with lower purchasing-power and living in Greater Buenos Aires, are the most concerned about lost days of classes, with the school syllabus one of the biggest worries.

by Sabrina Chemen

Demonstrators take to the streets in Embarcación, Salta, calling for justice for six-year-old Briana.

HEALTHCARE & SOCIETY

Briana: six-year-old’s tragic death highlights inequality in Argentina

22-07-2023 06:59 Child mortality is an ongoing tragedy in Argentina’s indigenous communities. The recent death of six-year-old Briana, a member of Salta’s Wichi community, in a hospital waiting-room last March highlights the precarious conditions facing residents in the north of the country and the failure of successive governments to protect the rights of all citizens.

by Sabrina Chemen

International arrivals at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires Province.

IMMIGRATION TO ARGENTINA

Despite the tales of an Ezeiza exodus, immigrants keep arriving in Argentina

26-05-2023 12:04 It could be the lack of red tape, that famous Argentine hospitality, or even the weather. It could be love, adventure or access to the public health and education systems – even the possibility of receiving social handouts. Thousands of immigrants begin new lives in our country each year despite runaway inflation and economic turmoil. The only way out may be Ezeiza, as the saying goes, but immigrants keep arriving in Argentina.

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One in four people in Argentina only use the public system, a new poll has showed.

HEALTH & SOCIETY

Public v private: 1 in 4 solely use state healthcare in Argentina

26-04-2023 13:49 One out of every four solely uses the public healthcare system, though more use private schemes exclusively. The commercial system is more used by men and more women have had to adjust their choices due to inflation.

by Sabrina Chemen

Children are seen on the street in the Los Pumitas neighbourhood in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, on March 15, 2023

UNICEF REPORT

Argentina’s children: the poorest of the nation’s poor

31-03-2023 10:40 Who are the almost seven million children and adolescents living in poverty in our country? Where do they live? And how? A report from UNICEF gives voice without access to drinking water, decent housing or education.

by Sabrina Chemen

Special report: Child marriage in Argentina

Child marriage is always forced

04-02-2023 06:04 In every province across Argentina, children are forced into marriage – even in the capital, Buenos Aires. Whether by family dictate, as a form of protection or an avenue of social mobility, underage girls are the victims of forced marriage.

by Sabrina Chemen

At a bar in Buenos Aires, a new community of exiles bonds over a shared hatred of Vladimir Putin and the Russian leader's invasion of Ukraine.

SLAVS IN ALMAGRO

At a bar in Buenos Aires, a new community bonds over a shared hatred of Putin

22-10-2022 06:44 They escaped the war and have formed their own community of exiles in Argentina, from where they can provide long-distance assistance and advice to fellow compatriots who do not want their hands to be bloodstained, courtesy of Vladimir Putin. Mostly young men of army recruitment age, they came to Buenos Aires from Moscow, Siberia, the Donbas and Kazakhstan – and they’re united in their hatred for Russia’s leader, the “wild beast” who rules in Moscow.

by Sabrina Chemen