Area-Global South & North Collaborations (Internationalization)
#VenezuelaBienvenida, a call for solidarity
With this initiative, we want to bring Colombians closer to the stories of the Venezuelans who migrated to our country and the deep economic and humanitarian crisis that Venezuela is experiencing.
Read MoreA Colombian woman appeals to the government for help locating her son arbitrarily detained in Venezuela
Ramona Rangel reports that on July 30th, the [Venezuelan] Bolivarian Intelligence Service took her 24-year-old son, Juan Pedro Lares, from his home in Venezuela. 11 days later, and still without any updates regarding his whereabouts, Rangel is asking the Colombian Embassy in Venezuela for help with her search.
Read More“Do not mess with my kids: No to gender ideology”
Leaders of Christian churches, conservative sectors, and parents worried about the influence of the State on their children’s sexual education have taken to the streets to defend traditional family values across Latin America.
Read MoreNew article by our Director on reimagining human rights
Our Director, César Rodríguez, published the article “Reimagining Human Rights” in the Journal of International Law and International Affairs.
Read More“Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance” published by Cambridge University is now available
The book “Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance”, edited by César Rodríguez Garavito, director of Dejusticia, Malcolm Langford (Univ. Oslo) and Julieta Rossi (Univ. Lanús) was just published.
Read MoreVenezuela, welcome to Colombia
Our Venezuelan brothers and sisters are migrating to Colombia in search of a dignified life. The authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro is creating the worst humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
Read MoreAn organization with collective leadership: our history reviewed in the Leader Network
The Leader Network chose Dejusticia to initiate the series of profiles on collective leadership. The profile published in Silla Vacía investigates three fundamental measures of leadership: vision, example and results.
Read MoreCall for applications to the fifth Global Action-Research Workshop is now open
The purpose of the workshop is to strengthen the research, writing and advocacy capacity of its participants and their contributions to their organizations and the international human rights movement in general. Call open until 31 March.
Read MoreThe progressive silence on Venezuela
As eloquent as the last OAS report on the extinction of democracy and human rights in Venezuela has been the silence of many progressive Latin American sectors, including human rights organizations.
Read MoreViolence against defenders of social rights is, in itself, a violation of ESCR
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations recently reminded States that they have a responsibility to ensure the protection of human rights defenders.
Read MoreFirst Global Workshop on Human Rights Strategies for Indigenous Leaders in the Global South
Dejusticia and the Racial Discrimination Watch opens their call to the First Global Workshop on Human Rights Strategies for Indigenous Leaders in the Global South. The workshop will be held in Colombia in December 2017. The call for proposals is open until June 10th.
Read MoreRenewing Pathways to Peace in the Philippines: International Law and Amnesties
In 2016, I was attending a book launch in Manila pertaining to the Communist peace process in the Philippines, when the topic of amnesty came up. I realized that while there was scant awareness of the intricacies of the topic, amnesty was critical to the resolution of the conflict but it was also a potential landmine.
Read MoreWatching the small print in business and human rights
Imagine an innovative Alternative Dispute Resolution proposal for international individual claims, offered as a solution, in the context of Business and Human Rights, to the lack of access to forums of the home country of a Corporation.
Read MoreCall for applications to the fifth Global Action-Research Workshop is now open
The theme of Dejusticia’s fifith annual Global Action-Research Workshop in 2017 will be reopening civil society spaces in the Global South. Dejusticia invites applications from young professionals from the Global South who are engaged in advocacy around this theme until the 31st of March
Read MoreTrampling on rights by judicial order: the risks of presidential appointments of judges in a personalist era
Since Trump ascended to the seat of Lincoln, political personalism has taken over the most powerful nation in the world. Now with the selection of the ultraconservative Neil Gorsuch as nominee to the Supreme Court, the politicization of justice is sharpened, and so is the scrutiny of the system to designate judges to the high courts. Read the…
Read MoreThe barbarians
Human groups have the tribal tendency to deny the humanity of anyone who belongs to a different culture.
Read MoreInternational order is threatened
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first days of the new U.S. government have produced commotion around the world.
The politics of remembering: A yellow house, snipers and civil war
In the midst of a busy traffic intersection, Beit Barakat, or the Barakat House, is an assuming edifice. Most Beirutis pass it by every day without knowing that behind its bullet hole-riddled yellow exterior lie almost a century of memories and a continuing struggle
Read MoreCreating visual benchmarks for human rights practice
There must be a way to incorporate the normative principles of the human rights framework in the visual comparisons that we make.
Read MoreTrump’s inauguration
The idea of “inauguration” of a new political era rather than a presidential period seems to be more appropriate.
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