Death lurks in grey seas: Experiences of the maritime crossing between Argentina and Europe during the First World War

In recent years, the repercussions of the First World War in Latin America have received increasing attention in the academic literature. However, the impact of the war at sea on the continent has not been exhaustively investigated. With the belligerents fighting for control of overseas communication and trade routes, passengers and sailors embarked on ocean liners and cargo ships to travel between South America and Europe. This article explores and analyses the experiences of those who crossed the Atlantic to and from the Argentine Republic. In so doing, it adds a Latin American dimension to the knowledge and understanding of the 1914–18 naval war.

Religiously Disaffiliated, Religiously Indifferent, or Believers without Religion? Morphology of the Unaffiliated in Argentina

This article aims to characterize the socioeconomic and demographic profile of the population without religious affiliation in Argentina as well as their beliefs, practices, and attitudes toward a range of issues related to public and private life. This is a social conglomerate that has grown exponentially in the region and worldwide, but it has been little explored by the social sciences of religion in Latin America. The research was based on the Second National Survey on Religious Beliefs and Attitudes in Argentina, which was carried out in 2019. The study universe was made up of the population of the Argentine Republic aged 18 years or more, living in localities or urban agglomerations with at least 5000 inhabitants. A total of 2421 cases were selected through a multistage sampling. The analysis of the data reveals that it would be inaccurate to say that the religiously unaffiliated do not convey religious beliefs. Almost three out of 10 (most of those who responded do not belong to any religion but neither defined themselves as agnostics or atheists) believe in God and in Jesus Christ. Given that they are the most numerous sub-group and with the highest growth rate within the religiously unaffiliated, it would be unwise to consider this fringe of the Argentine citizenry as a-religious. Nor can we unify them under the category of disaffiliates. Although six out of 10 have a history identified with some religion (and in those cases, it is indeed possible to observe a process of religious disaffiliation), the remaining 40% show paths defined by the alienation from the institutionalized religious spaces since their earliest age.

La unión convivencial a la luz del derecho internacional privado argentino. / Some considerations about domestic partnerships in the ligth of argentine international private law

Con la sanción del Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación (CCCN) en 2015 se introdujo en el sistema legal argentino el instituto jurídico de la unión convivencial, siendo regulada en el mismo desde la doble concepción de derecho interno y de derecho internacionalprivado.El objetivo de este trabajo es hacer algunas consideraciones de dicho instituto desde la óptica del Derecho internacional privado y de los problemas que las normas que lo regulan sobre jurisdicción y derecho aplicable pueden acarrear en su interpretación y aplicación y proponer la discusión de una reforma de la norma reguladora del derecho aplicable acorde a las necesidades actuales del tráfico jurídico.ABSTRACT: With the enactment of the new Civil and Commercial Code of the Argentine Republic (CCC) in 2015, the legal concept known as domestic partnership was introduced into the Argentine legal system, and it was organized both from the perspective of domestic law and internationalprivate law. The goal of this paper is to provide various considerations as regards such legal concept in the light of both international private law and the problems that the norms regulating such concept may involve in terms of competence and applicable law, for interpretation and applicability purposes thereof. Besides, this work seeks to open debate for a reformulation of the norm regulating applicable law tailored to the current needs of legal workload.

METODOLOGÍAS DE MEDICIÓN DE LA SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA NUTRICIONAL EN LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA

ABSTRACT Introduction: food is a human right and a basic need for their subsistence and development. enough food is produced worldwide to supply all inhabitants and satisfy their caloric and nutritional needs. But the mere fact of producing them does not ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all. Therefore, the correct measurement of nutritional food insecurity is essential for a better understanding of this phenomenon, allowing better communication between society, decision-makers and the political agenda. Objectives: analyze the strengths and limitations of the methodologies used to measure nutritional food security in the Argentine Republic between 1984 and 2017. Materials and methods: a systematic review of articles published in five electronic databases was carried out: Scopus, SciELO, PubMed, BVS and Redalyc. The categories analyzed were the nutritional food security measurement methodologies (when people enjoy food security in addition to a healthy environment, as well as adequate health, education and care), with their type of technique, level, duration and dimension evaluated, limitations and strengths. The search terms used were food insecurity, food security, hunger, food sovereignty, food policy, food availability, nutritional programs, nutritional policies and food assistance. Results: after the search, 22 articles were selected for analysis. Conclusions: all the methodologies analyzed take partial aspects. A methodology has not yet been developed that reflects the multisectoral (food, agricultural, governmental, economic, social, etc.) and multidimensional (access, availability, use and stability) nature of the concept of nutritional food security. Having an adequate measurement of nutritional food security is essential to assess the state of nutritional food insecurity in the Argentine Republic, the government policies that are developed under this concept and verify its impact on the health and nutrition of the Argentine population. Key words: food security; food insecurity; hunger; nutrition policy; Argentina.

Argentina – China. Sustainable development for a better future

Argentina is considered one of the fastest developing countries in Latin America. However, since 2015, the country has been trying to get out of the economic crisis, which has significantly worsened by 2019. Meanwhile China’s relations with geographically and culturally distant continents, such as Latin America, are widely seen as a part of Chinese government’s drive to establish itself as a global leader, as well as to secure new markets and resources for its sustainable growth. Even the distance between regions is not a significant obstacle to the sustainable development of relations. This article will discuss the relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Argentine Republic. The author focuses on the economic, investment and energy aspects of sustainable development of bilateral relations. The objective was to establish the format of bilateral relations between Argentina and China starting in 2015 and ending in 2020. It can be concluded that the relations between Argentina and China are a dynamically developing example of mutually beneficial sustainable development of the two countries and such relations can be used by Argentina in order to overcome the crisis and for further prosperity of this beautiful country.

Transitional Justice: extension of the laws of reparation and the case of insilio in the Argentine Republic

This article presents a chronological timeline focused on the reparation policies carried out in Argentina since the end of the last military dictatorship in 1983 to the present. It illustrates their origin, starting with some few sectorized acknowledgments by public sector institutions until becoming a diverse regulation able to cover several cases. Such reparation policies have extended the compensation time frame, and by means of judicial interpretation, even the margins of the law. Finally, in the context of the expansion of reparation policies in Argentina, it is necessary to ask whether internal exile should be considered as a case that needs to be regulated, taking into account the loss of rights and the damage inflicted on those who suffered it. For this purpose, a series of interviews with different victims were conducted.

Privilegios concursales y acreedores involuntarios en cuestiones de salud

En el presente trabajo se comenta un reciente pronunciamiento de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la República Argentina en el que, en virtud de las normas internacionales protectorias de los derechos del niño y de las personas con discapacidad, se declaró la inconstitucionalidad de ciertas normas nacionales en materia de privilegios concursales a fin de lograr el efectivo cumplimiento de una sentencia indemnizatoria de daños y perjuicios provocados en el propio alumbramiento de una persona. The present paper comments on a recent pronouncement of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Argentine Republic in which, due to international law protecting the rights of children and persons with disabilities, certain national bankruptcy privileges rules were declared unconstitutional in order to achieve effective compliance of a compensatory sentence of damages caused in the very birth of a person.