Issue-Environmental Justice
Frog’s Luck
Only a month from the climate change global summit in Paris, humanity acts as the proverbial frog in the pot: floating in water that slowly warms, without realizing that we are almost at the boiling point.
Read MoreAgricultural Bogotá
“For our grandparents’ lands,” so says grafitti painted during the agricultural strike last year in the center of Bogotá.
Read MoreGoing beyond Numbers: Energy Poverty and Coal
Fighting coal should not only be a matter of number, but of rights.
Read MoreTackling Income Inequality to Combat Climate Change
If we want to combat climate change, we must start with combatting economic inequality at the national and international level.
Read MoreFraming Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue
States have the responsibility of protecting human rights violations that arise not only from climate impacts, but from actions taken to mitigate emissions or adapt to climate change.
Read MoreEating Mercury
To understand the problems and options of Colombia today, nothing is better than to look into mercury.
Read MoreThe Beginning of All Things
Thales of Miletus was the first philosopher of Classical Greece that tried to find the origin of everything; something that could explain what exists. This origin, which he called Arche, he found in water. Everything is made up of water, said Thales, “the earth rests on water, like an island.” His disciples later added three elements to this explanation: earth, air, and fire.
Read MoreIf They Globalize Exploitation, Let’s Globalize Resistance
The struggle to protect land is a shared mission in the Americas that has been globalized together with exploitation.
Read MoreIllegally Mining Human Rights for Gold
Even though the price of gold has now reached its lowest level in the last five years, gold price increased steadily between 2000 and 2012. This increase produced a worldwide growth in mining activities, including illegal gold mining, which has become an unleashed monster for human rights.
Read MoreIncoherence and Fumigations
It would be contraditory, legally unacceptable and politically inconvenient for the Government to renew fumigations with glyphosate in Catatumbo by arguing that coca cultivation has increased in this region.
Read MoreEnvironmental Democracy
While the Inspector General ignores the popular vote in Bogotá, in the rest of the country local democracy is flourishing. Last Sunday was Tauremena’s turn (in Casanare), where they voted against petroleum projects that put the municipalities water sources at risk.
Read MoreDo Bulls have Rights?
While the Constitutional Court is deciding a case about bullfights in Bogotá, an excellent decision by the State Council makes it clear that animals do have some rights and that bulls are not the exception.
Read MoreEnvironmental Injustice and Social Movements
The Warsaw Summit failed. The sobs and the hunger strike of the representative of the Philippines were not enough. “It’s time to end this madness,” he told the stubborn leaders of the world, referring to global warming which exacerbated the effects of the Haiyan typhoon that destroyed his family.
Read MoreThe Inspector’s General’s Crusade Against the Environment
Thanks to information sent by several readers, I see that my last column fell short in criticizing the pressure that the Inspetor General’s office asserts on public officers protecting the environment
Read MoreThe Inspector General´s Ecological Bullying
Piedras, Tolima. In this remote rice region of the country, it is clear that the Inspector General’s crusade against the rights of the citizens is more ambitious and ubiquitous than what it appears from Bogotá.
Read MoreYoung Human Rights Activists Reflect on their Work
Dejusticia asked participants of the First Global Action-Research Workshop to reflect on their human rights work.
Read MoreMain Difficulties for Human Rights Advocates in the Global South
Dejusticia asked Global Action-Research Workshop participants what the biggest difficulties are for human rights advocates.
Read MoreEffects of the Global Action-Research Workshop
Dejusticia asked participants of the First Global Action-Research Workshop what effects they think the workshop will have.
Read MoreThe Role of the Global South in the Future of Human Rights
Dejusticia asked participants of the First Global Action-Research Workshop what role the Global South will play in the human rights movement.
Read MoreSanturbán and the Minister: Why Arrieta isn’t right
One of the first decisions the Minister of Environment should make is the final demarcation of the paramo of Santurban, which will also determine where Gold mining can be done and where it cannot.
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