Issue-Environmental Justice
Who Is Still Financing the Climate Crisis?
Despite the progress the international community has achieved in terms of tackling climate change, a great contradiction exists between what is stated in international accords and what happens in practice. This is particularly evident in the steady financing of fossil fuel infrastructure at the expense of people’s lives.
Read MoreKnowledge, resistance and reflection
A new initiative for indigenous leaders in the Global South.
Read MoreWhat if we turn cities into centers to mitigate climate change?
Faced with the challenge of urbanization, the United Nations has convened Habitat III, where political leaders will meet in October in Ecuador to negotiate and promote commitments under the so-called New Urban Agenda.
Read MoreReforesting the Earth: Brazil’s Message to the World
Brazil’s message during the inaguration of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games was powerful: we have to reforest the Earth. In the parade, each athlete received a seed that will be sown in the Deodoro olympic park.
Read MorePermitted to Prohibit Mining
The question that everyone asks here in Salento, Quindío is the same I have heard from mayors and social leaders in many municipalities: can the mining titles given by the National Government supercede local decisions to privilege other activities, like tourism, agriculture, or the conservation of water sources.
Read MoreThe Era of Plastic
“Love is what will outlive us,” Philip Larking wrote in 1956. The English poet did not know that what will actually outlive us – plastic – was being invented as he composed those verses.
Read MoreEnvironment for Aliens
There is two ways to debate the government’s reversal and Ecopetrol president’s comments in the case allowing for the drilling of oil in Macarena.
Read MoreSummer Festival in Caño Cristales
When historians write the chronicle of the Santos Administration, they will say that the agreement with the FARC was his great achievement and the abandonment of the environment his failure.
Read MoreWhat to Do with Human Rights?
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I would like see a human rights discourse with the participation of more people, more ways of knowing, and that is more local.
Read MoreParamos and an Ecological Constitution
The Constitutional Court’s ruling about the National Development Plan is much more than the prohibition of mining in paramos.
Read MoreCoal Industry Expands in Developing World Linked to Abuses
Report claims despite its decline in the West, coal industry is growing in the developing world widely associated with poverty and displacement.
Read MoreGramalote: One of the First Cases of Climate Displacement
Displacement Solutions published a report that documents the story of the tragedy suffered by the Gramalote population.
Read MoreIndigenous Leaders, Afrodescendants and Human Rights Organizations Meet with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
They discussed the implementation of the right to prior, free, and informed consultation and consent in Latin America.
Read MoreDejusticia Launches Research Project about Ethnic-Racial Justice in Latin America
Regarding regulations on diversity in the continent and communities’ demands for recognition.
Read MorePrior Consultation Can Prevent Environmental Damage in Colombia and for Humanity: Daniel Cerqueira
Interview with DPLF’s expert that participated in the 25th Anniversary Seminar of the ILO Convention 169 in Bogotá.
Read MoreSuspension of Glyphosate Fumigation: Big Decision
Due to its impacts on the rights of communities, aereal fumigation should not be considered as a anti-drug strategy.
Read MoreSecond Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates- Long Version
What is Action-Research?
Read MoreHow Is Action-Research Useful?
Dejusticia asked the participants of the Second Action-Research Workshop, How is action-research useful?
Read MoreWhy Are Collaborations Among Global South Organizations Important?
Dejusticia asked the participants of the Second Action-Research Workshop, why are collaborations among global South organizations important?
Read MoreSecond Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates- Short Version
Second Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates- Short Version
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