Issue-Environmental Justice
The Coal Industry Has to End if We Want to Meet the Goal of Global Warming
We want climate justice now!
Read MoreThe Planet in Brackets
Here at the climate change summit in Paris, the future of the planet is in brackets.
Read MoreA Bloody Difficult Problem
If you are troubled by the climate summit in Paris, you are not the only one.
Read MoreA Human Rights Based Approach to Climate Change in Latin America
We cannot forget to humanize climate change and remember that those who have contributed to the least to the problem are and will continue to be the most affected.
Read MoreThe Pebble in the Shoe of Latin America
As the representative from Costa Rica expressed, participation “is the heart” of what brought them to the negotiation process.
Read MoreThe Faith of the Coal-Mining Country
They say that the expression in Spanish “to have the faith of a coal miner”— a blind faith, devoid of a grip on reality— comes from a famous anecdote from fifteenth-century Spain, which involved a coal miner.
The Global Village
In 1962 the Canadian sociologist Marshal McLuhan spoke of “the global village” to suggest that, thanks to advances in communications technology, the world had become smaller and more managable.
Read MoreColombia’s Environmental Near-sightedness and Clumsiness in ECLAC
In contrast to the majority of countries that want a treaty that guarantees the right to the free access to information in Latin America, Colombia has done everything in its power to make the instrument simply a declaraton of principles without teeth.
Read MoreThe Injustice of Beef
“To eat a big chunk of beef is one of the most efficient forms to validate and take advantage of an unjust world,” judged recently writer Martín Caparrós in one of the best op-eds I have read in years.
Read MoreTo Grow!
Urban agriculture not only provides healthful food, but it also helps to ameliorate food insecurity and build environmental and consumer consciousness.
Read MoreHow is the Action-Research Workshop Useful?
Dejusticia asked the participants of the Second Action-Research Workshop, How is the action-research workshop useful?
Read MoreWhat Are the Main Challenges for the Global Human Rights Movement?
Dejusticia asked the participants of the Second Action-Research Workshop, What are the main challenges for the global human rights movement?
Read MoreCésar Rodríguez Garavito at the Constitutional Court’s Constitutional Conference on Lands
Talk “The New Frontiers of Constitutional Justice,” in the Participation and Environment panel.
Read MoreWater and the Inspector General’s Office
What was the Inspector General’s Office doing while the water supply was running out in Casanare? It wasn’t investigating the officers who let the “morichales” (wetlands) dry or who approved the licenses to exploit patroleum near water sources.
Read MoreA Navigation Chart for the Bogotá River
As the Judge of the Council of State who authored the decontamination of the Bogota river order said, the decision is a “navigation chart” for Colombia´s environmental policy.
Read MoreWho Decides When it Comes to Mining?
Contrary to what the Minister of Mining and the newspaper El Tiempo said, referring to the recent decision of the Constitutional Court, citizens can organize consultations to oppose the effects of mining in their territories,
Read MoreThe Bullying Continues
Based on all the criticism the Inspector General´s Office received (including from those who did not support Petro), some of us thought, mistakenly, that the Inspector General would calm down.
Read MoreCosigo, the Amazon and Prior Consultations
“To see a world in a grain of sand” wrote William Blake. And in a grain of gold – of the mine that Cosigo Resources is planning to build in the natural park Yaigoié – Apaporis- we can see the future of mining and the environment in Colombia.
Read MoreKirchner’s “nac&pop” project
Cristina Kirchner’s government illustrates the risks that populism has for democracy without offering any of its advantage in exchange.
Read MoreClimate Injustice and Social Movements: Latin America’s Chance
César Rodríguez Garavito writes about the failure of the Climate Change World Summit in Warsaw and on the upcoming meeting in Lima in 2014, that may be the last chance to save the Planet from catastrophe.
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