Area-Global South & North Collaborations (Internationalization)
Permitted 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 MoreCulture and Its Intangible Benefits
We should take advantage of this moment when Colombia begins to question the role of culture in peace building to consider its contributions more broadly.
Read MoreSantos and IACHR’s Bankrupcy
It is known, because the news traveled like wildfire, that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is in financial crisis.
Read MoreThe Political Map of IACHR’s Crisis
Two days after that media and social networks go viral with IACHR’s crisis, we started to learn OAS member states’ reactions.
Read More#SAVEIACHR
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is facing a budget crisis provoked by member states of the Organization of American States that do not give it enough funds to do its job.
Read MoreThe Silent Checkmate against the IACHR
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The current IACHR budget crisis means that the Commission will no longer be able to process new petitions, human rights monitoring in a third of the region will be suspended, and the capacity to issue precautionary measures will be reduced by 80%.
Read MoreWho Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel?
Dictators will try to defeat art that opposes its vision of the world, but the resilience of art is inherent in its nature. Dictators can try to stifle it, imprison it, but history shows that it is impossible to fully wipe out or control art. In the end, you cannot break a butterfly on a wheel.
Read MoreESCR Start to Catch Up
The end of 2015 marked important milestones for the protection of ESCR in the UN and OAS human rights systems, in which both systems determined that these rights are justiciable.
Accounts and Tales of Medications
Why are medicines so much more expensive in Colombia when compared to other countries? The debate about a cancer treatment drug (Imatinib) exemplifies the reasons, documented in a study that we published with the expert Rochelle Dreyfuss and specialists of the Americas.
Read MorePost-UNGASS: From Why to How to Change Drug Policy
Colombia insisted at the UN that the War against Drugs has failed, it’s time to implement more intelligent policy domestically.
Read MoreTo Tell Powerful Stories: A Goal of the Global School
Interview with Nélson Padilla
Read MoreDejusticia’s Third Action-Research Global School Begins
Indigenous 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 MoreThe United States Shows that It Is Possible to Build a Path towards Equality
In a pluralist democracy it is discriminatory for a person to be deprived of a right due to their sexual orientation. Today the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage.
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?
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