An overview of Argentina’s current gender policies and the barriers faced by women and dissident gender identities on International Women’s Day

Banking is the first sector to hold yearly wage rounds and often set the tone for the rest

Protesters marching to demand access to Lake Escondido were violently repressed by members of private security for private landowners at a path leading to the lake, where British magnate Joe Lewis built his Patagonian mansion. Nine people were hurt. Under Argentine law, lakes are public and access has …

Indigenous rights activist Facundo Jones Huala was detained in El Bolsón, Río Negro, after hiding from the Chilean justice for a year.  A police team from Rio Negro found him in a house in El Bolsón, a town of 18,000 people, after several months of searching, in a …

All 24 provinces in Argentina reported wildfires in 2022. Salta, Corrientes and San Luis were the hardest hit, while Buenos Aires, Misiones, and Santa Cruz were least affected. It is estimated that these damages cost Argentina up to US$3.7 billion per year.  According to government figures compiled by …

Social Development Minister Victoria Tolosa Paz announced yesterday that 154,441 recipients of the Potenciar Trabajo (Empowering Work) welfare program would be cut off for failing to verify their identities in an online form.  The form was carried out through the government’s Mi Argentina app between November 22 and …

Mattresses, tents, and makeshift soup kitchens were spread across Belgrano square, in the dry summer sun of San Salvador de Jujuy. It was December 2015, and dozens of families and social activists were camped outside the Governance Building, demanding the newly-elected governor Gerardo Morales restore resources to their …

On Monday, environmental activists presented an open letter in the Casa Rosada requesting the resignation of incoming presidential advisor Antonio Aracre over the environmental record of his former company, Syngenta. Aracre has not yet started his mandate, which will begin on February 1.  The document has over 15,000 …

This week, Minister of Social Development Victoria Tolosa Paz met with leftist social movement coalition Unidad Piquetera (UP) and the Social Economy Workers’ Union (UTEP), which brings together pro-government social organizations, to negotiate welfare payments.  In recent months both organizations have been protesting cuts to social welfare plans …