Irrational political animals
Either humans lost their reason or there is a serious problem with our concept of reason. I understand those who are convinced of the first thing: millions of humans – self-defining rationals – are reluctant to believe in the benefits of vaccines, believe in the most implausible lies through social media, are destroying the planet where they live, and choosing egotists populist against their own interests.
Read MoreThe pressures that advocates for healthy food face
It is no secret that health activists, particularly those taking on the tobacco industry, have faced aggressive, illegal and corrupt tactics deployed by the industries that these activists battle.
Read MoreFor a vital minimum in La Guajira
The crisis in Guajira is the expression of all the failures of Colombian politics.
Read MorePopulism and imprisonment in the Americas
A noxious trend has been embedded in the region for years. It consists in believing that jail is the only way to combat crime and in stigmatizing certain populations as “criminals.”
Read MorePopulation and stigmatization
The growing polarization of peace is further eroding debate and democratic coexistence, due to stigmatizations against those who defend certain positions, as has happened to me in the debate on the so-called “command”responsibility.”
Read MorePeace without indigenous or Afro-Colombian people
Through the fast-track in Congress, the implementation of the peace agreement is leaving out ethnic peoples. Long before there was a table in Havana, the peace labs were the territories of the Nasa in Cauca, the Wiwa’s Sierra or the black communities of the Pacific, who refused to take arms or left in the middle of guerrilla and paramilitary violence and state stigmatization.
Read MoreGoing to school hungry in La Guajira
In Bogotá, there are two images of La Guajira. For some, its is a touristic paradise. For the majority of people, it is synonymous with institutional crisis.
Read MoreThe State seems to negotiate with a dagger under the tablecloth
The drugs section of the peace agreement mentions strategies for the substitution of illicit crops, strengthening the fight against illegal finances and drug trafficking groups, paying attention to consumption and the promotion of an international debate on drug policy. However, it fell short in providing a comprehensive solution for communities associated with coca leaf cultivation.
Read MoreHealthy Food Activists: Old Tactics, New Victims
For no one is a secret that health activists have had to face tactical, illegal and corrupt agencies from the industries they fight. However, no one will suspect that food activists would also have to face these tactics. The infiltration of communications and censorship have become recurrent forms to stop their work in Latin America
Read More“Fast” but not “fat track”
The government seems to seek to convert the so-called fast track (“fast track”), into a kind of fat track (a “thick track”). At least that is the impression that leaves this idea of using it to approve constitutional reforms, such as mandatory voting or closed election lists, which may be good, but do not have a clear link with the Peace Agreement.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny’s presentation in Senate hearing: endorsement and fast-track
Rodrigo Umprimny’s participation in Senate hearing on November 29, 2016.
Read MoreSeminar: 5 years after the Law of Victims and Restitution of Collective Territories – Impact On Indigenous and Afro-Descendent Communities
5 years after the Victims’ and Collective Territories Restitution Law was passed a seminar evaluates its impact on indigenous and Afro-Descendent communities in Colombia.
Read MoreIncreasing support by health organizations for the sugary drinks tax
We presented a tutela in defense of the Great Ciénaga of Santa Marta
On November 10th, we presented a tutela action regarding the environmental degradation situation that affects the Great Ciénaga of Santa Marta. The ciénaga is a strategic ecosystem composed by a collection of lakes and wetlands, declared Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO and protected by the RAMSAR Convention.
Read MoreDejusticia publishes document with legal reasons in favor of the sugary drinks tax
Ad portas of a
tax reform, Dejusticia publishes a policy paper on the viability and importance
of the tax on sugary drinks as a public health measure to disincentive
consumption.
Press Release for the General Public and the Dialogue Table in La Habana
The signatory organizations address this statement to the general public and the Dialogue Table in La Habana, in order to present legal and political conciliatory points on certain issues of the Peace Agreement signed by the Colombian Government and the FARC EP on September 26th, 2016.
Map of proposals of the NO spokespeople
This table, elaborated by Dejusticia and the Colombian Commission of Jurists, compiles the main proposals of the political leaders of the NO.
Read MoreDejusticia intervenes at UN on transnational corporations and human rights
This week (October 24-28), the 2nd Session of Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights is meeting and discussing a binding legal instrument.
Read MoreIntensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Latin America in a Global Context Begins
The course brings national and international scholars in the area, as well as 23 participants to learn and build knowledge from the Global South.
Discussion forum: The Future of Social Rights
As part of our Intensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Latin America in a Global Context, we invite you to an event on October 25th on the future of socials rights. The event will be livestreamed.
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