News of underage

Justice minister working on bill to lower age of criminal responsibility

04-04-2024 21:17 Mariano Cúneo Libarona posts on social media showing he had begun work on a bill that aims to lower the age of imputability so that minors can be sentenced from the age of 14.

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