News of minors

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

human rights & judiciary

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.

POLITICS & JUDICIARY

Rights groups criticise bid to lower age of criminal responsibility

05-02-2024 11:02 Several bills seeking to lower the age of criminal responsibility have been introduced to Argentina’s Congress in recent years, but none have won approval. As Javier Milei’s justice minister confirms he will seek once again to lower the threshold, human rights groups and childrens’ advocacy groups reiterate their opposition.

by Ashton Goren

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

SOCIETY

Report calls for measures to tackle sexual exploitation of children

08-09-2023 10:52 Fundación Red por la Infancia report details concerns over sexual abuse and exploitation of minors; Argentina 49th out of 60 countries in international ranking assessing prevention and response to problem.

SCANDALOUS COMEBACK ON CARDS?

Disgraced ex-mayor ousted amid scandal plans another run for office

09-04-2023 10:06 Juan Rosario Mazzone, disgraced former mayor of the small town of El Bordo in Salta, attempts political comeback after serving a three-year sentence for corruption of minors; 70-year-old was ousted from post in 2015 after leaked photos showed him posing half-naked with minors.

News of minors

Juvenile delinquency: Off the grid, immune from prosecution

Justice minister working on bill to lower age of criminal responsibility

Rights groups criticise bid to lower age of criminal responsibility

Argentina and the infantilisation of poverty

Report calls for measures to tackle sexual exploitation of children

Disgraced ex-mayor ousted amid scandal plans another run for office

IMF official steps back from Argentina talks in feud with Milei

Cocaine ‘mules’ arrested in northern Argentina with capsules hidden in bodies

‘Mochileros de la cocaína’ – Numbers of drug ‘mule’ backpackers on rise in north of Argentina

Alberto Fujimori, Peru's deeply divisive former leader, dead at 86

Spanish PM Sánchez meets with exiled Venezuelan opposition candidate González Urrutia

Efecto Uber: devolvieron el 20% de las chapas de taxis en Córdoba

Martín Lousteau lapidó a los diputados radicales que apoyaron el veto de Javier Milei: "Hace rato no veía esta inmundicia explícita"

Senado: aprueban Boleta Única y financiamiento universitario, tajante rechazo al DNU de fondos a la SIDE

Guerra entre Caputo y municipios: la provincia de Buenos Aires no dará de baja las tasas incluidas en los servicios

PAMI presenta cursos universitarios para jubilados: qué se puede estudiar y cómo participar