Murat Çelikkan: When dissent becomes crime
By Krizna Gomez |
This weekend he was supposed to come to Colombia, to a forum on human rights in Cali. Today the Turkish activist is in jail for being editor of an opposition newspaper.
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Dejusticia, ICAR and ECCJ release updated report on Assessments of Existing National Action Planson Business and HR
By Dejusticia |
The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ), and the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia) are pleased to release an updated report on Assessments of Existing National Action Plans (NAPs) on Business and Human Rights.
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#VenezuelaBienvenida, a call for solidarity
By Dejusticia |
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 more A Colombian woman appeals to the government for help locating her son arbitrarily detained in Venezuela
By Dejusticia |
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.
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New article by our Director on reimagining human rights
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Our Director, César Rodríguez, published the article "Reimagining Human Rights" in the Journal of International Law and International Affairs.
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“Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance” published by Cambridge University is now available
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
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.
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An organization with collective leadership: our history reviewed in the Leader Network
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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.
Call for applications to the fifth Global Action-Research Workshop is now open
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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.
Violence against defenders of social rights is, in itself, a violation of ESCR
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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.
