News of community

Government wants to remove femicide from Argentina's Penal Code

24-01-2025 15:48 President Javier Milei's government wants to strip femicide from Argentina's Penal Code, eliminate non-binary IDs and remove quotas for disabled and trans people.

DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATIONS

Islamic group accuses Milei government of ‘censorship’ in TV show row

28-11-2024 13:34 Islamic civil association accuses President Javier Milei’s government of censorship as its weekly TV Pública show on faith, 'El Cálamo,' is taken off-air; NGO links move to Argentina’s political alignment with Israel.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Marchers at Pride criticise Milei's 'discriminatory' laws and policies

02-11-2024 18:25 Revellers voice criticism of President Javier Milei's government as they take to the streets of the capital for the the 33rd LGBT Pride March.

Marcha del orgullo

‘Much more than a march’ – Pride gets political in Milei era

01-11-2024 06:29 The 33rd Pride March in Argentina will take place this Saturday, November 2. But while the celebrations are sure to be joyous, this year’s incarnation will have a more political tone.

by Cimran Naik

The ‘Gol olímpico’

Neighbourhood remembers first ‘Olympic goal’ in football history

10-10-2024 06:10 At a low-income barrio in Barracas, a group gathered to remember football history last weekend: the eponymous ‘Gol olímpico’ (a goal scored direct from a corner) by Cesáreo Onzari in a match between Argentina and Uruguay a century ago.

by Claudio Gómez

diplomacy & community

British Embassy hosts world-class tango talent and Oxbridge alumni

31-08-2024 20:56 Seventy-second Oxford & Cambridge dinner takes place at British Ambassador’s Residence in Buenos Aires, which the following night hosts world-class tango talents.

by Michael Soltys

CULTURE & COMMUNITY

Exhibition puts spotlight on Andrew Graham-Yooll’s photographic eye

23-08-2024 14:53 ‘Urban Witness’ is a collection of images taken from Andrew Graham-Yooll’s personal archives; Universidad de San Andrés librarians processing journalist’s records appraise amateur photographer’s eye for city life.

by Catherine Kirby

OBITUARY

Tommy Hudson OBE, 1932-2024

14-06-2024 12:38 A stalwart of the Anglo-Argentine community, Tomás Neville Hudson died on June 4 in his 92nd year.

COMMUNITY & SOCIETY

British Hospital of Buenos Aires marks its 180th anniversary

12-06-2024 18:39 The Hospital Británico de Buenos Aires (British Hospital of Buenos Aires) can trace its roots all the way back to 1844 and its creation as an institution to care for what was then Argentina's largest foreign community. Since then it has pioneered new medical technology and expanded its patient base, all with an eye on the future.

by Enrique Garabetyan

COMMUNITY & DIPLOMACY

British Embassy’s communications director honoured with MBE

24-05-2024 14:39 Oliver Galak, the communications director of the British Embassy at Argentina, has been formally honoured as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by King Charles III.

BLOOMBERG

Real-estate mogul eyes ‘city-towns’ from Patagonia to Paraguay

12-04-2024 10:33 Eduardo Costantini, Argentine real-estate mogul who popularised gated community concept, plans to spend up to US$1.5 billion developing more in new areas.

ENVIRONMENT

Death toll reaches 110 as wildfires scorch central Chile

05-02-2024 11:50 Forest fires in Chile continue to rage, destroying neighborhoods and inciting a death toll that reached at least 112 as of Sunday.

POLITICS

Milei visits rabbi’s grave in NYC, lunches with Bill Clinton

27-11-2023 18:42 Argentina's president-elect heads to New York City to visit the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and share a lunch with former US president Bill Clinton. Later he flies to Washington DC for the 'work' leg of the trip.

COMMUNITY

Ambassador stages grand occasion for royal birthday

26-11-2023 22:14 British Embassy opens doors of residence to celebrate the 75th birthday of King Charles III.

by Michael Soltys

community

Poppy Day marked at Remembrance Day service

16-11-2023 15:17 Poppy Day was faithfully marked by a Remembrance Day service in St. John’s Anglican cathedral last Sunday.

by Michael Soltys

WAR IN MIDDLE EAST

Anti-Semitism fears grow amid Israel-Hamas war

03-11-2023 10:21 More than 100 complaints of anti-Semitism have been reported to DAIA Jewish organisation since outbreak of war in Middle East; 'Star of David' graffiti on building in Caballito ramps up discrimination fears as Jewish schools issue uniform warning.

by Montserrat Pagan

Guest Voice

Ramadan: Much more than fasting

23-03-2023 19:08 In Islam, fasting for Ramadan is not just diet, but a way to live in peace.

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

State of the nation

04-03-2023 05:59 The state-of-the nation speech to open Congress tradition long predates that experience, going all the way back to 1864 and then-president Bartolomé Mitre.

by Michael Soltys