POPE FRANCIS' EARLY YEARS

'One isn't born a saint!' – School nuns remember Pope as a boy

At Sonia Avalos, AFP

COURTS

Former Misiones lawmaker sentenced to 14 years in child sex abuse case

COURTS

Trial of Misiones provincial ex-deputy on child porn charges begins

CRIME & SECURITY

Milei tells Kicillof to resign over Buenos Aires Province ‘bloodbath’

HUMAN RIGHTS

Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo announce discovery of 'grandchild number 139'

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Pope voices concern over missing seven-year-old

HUMAN RIGHTS

Abuelas announce discovery of 138th child taken by dictatorship

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN committee ‘deeply concerned’ for children amid cutbacks

At Mattis Nurit

Child poverty in Argentina

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

At Sabrina Chemen

CRIME & INSECURITY

Authorities receive a report denouncing sale of child every 17 days

At Leonardo Nieva

CRIME & SECURITY

Fugitive Misiones ex-deputy accused of paedophilia captured by police

CRIME & SECURITY

Misiones offers reward for info on fugitive lawmaker accused of child porn offences

CRIME & SECURITY

Manhunt for fugitive Misiones lawmaker accused of child porn offences

POVERTY IN ARGENTINA

Child poverty soared to 63% in Argentina in 2023, says UCA report

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

UNICEF: 1.5 million children miss a meal each day in Argentina

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Two months since Loan disappeared – how the case continues

POVERTY

Rising poverty to impact life expectancy, child mortality rates

At Agustina Bordigoni

CRIME & SECURITY

Investigation into of disappearance of five-year-old takes disturbing twist

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Aunt of missing five-year-old child Loan testifies he was ‘run over’

CRIME & SECURITY

‘All available resources’ deployed in search for find missing five-year-old

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Milei dispatches security minister amid furore for missing child

At Patrick Gillespie, Bloomberg

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Security minister travels to Paraguay as Argentina hunts for missing five-year-old

MIGRATION & HUMAN RIGHTS

UN: Number of children fleeing Latin America is soaring

CRIME & INSECURITY

US reprimands Latin American nations in parental kidnapping report

CHILD POVERTY

An X-ray of child labour in Argentina

At Agustina Bordigoni

CHESS

‘Messi of chess’: Argentine 10-year-old child prodigy takes no prisoners

At César Augusto

CHESS

Chess prodigy: 10-year-old Faustino Oro beats world number one

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

UNICEF: 7 out of 10 children live in poverty in Argentina

Gender violence in Spain

In Spain, child protection key to legal fight against gender violence

At Marie Giffard, AFP

MUSIC & ART

Teatro Colón fires musical director after child sex abuse allegations

HUMAN RIGHTS & ART

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

At Sabrina Chemen

SOCIETY

Report calls for measures to tackle sexual exploitation of children

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

UCA: 6 in 10 children and adolescents in Argentina are poor