International justice: as fragile as it is necessary
Is international justice effective? We analyze the fragility, lack of budget, and political tensions and global courts.
By Paula Andrea Valencia Cortés | | Human Rights, ICC, Impunity, Inter-American System, International Criminal Court, International Justice, Multilateralism Crisis.
With judges on the chopping block, who will defend us?
With the global Rule of Law in decline, Latin America has become a political chessboard. Who protects us when judges lose their power?
By Kelly Giraldo Viana, Sofía Carrerá Martínez | | Authoritarianism, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Judicial Independence, Rule of Law, Venezuela, World Justice Project
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The Harm Reduction International Conference has come to an end: what happens next?
By Dejusticia | | HR25, Política de drogas
Thirty-five years since the first International Harm Reduction Conference in Liverpool, United Kingdom, in April 2025 we as a global collective of front-line health workers, academics, advocates, policy-makers, politicians, UN ...
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Climate change reached the world’s highest court: a moment of hope for environmental justice
By Marcela Madrid, Sergio Chaparro Hernández | | Climate change, climate justice, Human Rights, The Hague
Arnold Loughman grew up watching his grandfather plant yam in Tanna, Vanuatu, by digging a deep hole in the soil and, months later, during harvest season, come back to proudly ...
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Argentina must protect social mobilization, not silence it
By Dejusticia | | Argentina, criminalization, Milei, mobilization, Social Protest
Social and human rights organizations express our deep concern over the brutal repression of social protest in Argentina on Wednesday 12. The “march for the retired” has been taking place ...
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A Historic Vote at the CND: Colombia Challenges the Global Drug Control System
By Isabel Pereira Arana | | CND68, Commission on Narcotic Drugs, drugs policy, Prohibition
In the final hours of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on March 14, we were on the edge of our seats, anxiously waiting. After a tense week of negotiations, ...
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Enlaza Strengthening Program: an Opportunity to Strengthen Ourselves as a Civil Society
By Nina Chaparro González, Andrea Forero | | Civil Society, Derechos Humanos, enlaza region, Program for strengthening
In a world scenario in which different forms of authoritarianism are emerging that threaten human rights guarantees, civil society organizations are seeking ways to avoid persecution and restrictions that limit ...
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Dictatorship in Peru: Silencing the People’s Voice
By Diego Sardón Tupayachi | | Dictadura, Gobierno, Human Rights, Perú, Program for strengthening - Perú
On December 7, 2022, the dismissal of Pedro Castillo—in clear disregard of the popular will— unleashed protests in various regions of Peru. Violent interventions by the armed forces and police, ...
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I don’t care if they call me a dictator.
By Nina Chaparro González | | bukele, Democracy, Dictadura, El Salvador, Program for strengthening - Others
During his six years in office, Bukele has consolidated his power, paving the way to become the dictator he appears to be announcing himself as.
Lea más NGOs at risk of global extinction
By Nina Chaparro González | | financiación internacional, NGO, Program for strengthening - Others
How can non-governmental organizations transform themselves? What were they like when they did not depend on international funding?
Lea más Colombia: going back to the original balance of justice
By Paola Molano Ayala | | gorillaz, JEP, Transitional Justice, Victims
There is a crucial aspect of Colombia’s transitional justice model that is worrying: the current inability of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to offer legal security to those who participated in the conflict, including in human rights violations, and have not been identified as among the most responsible. And making sure they also contribute to the satisfaction of the rights of the victims. The JEP must avoid keep moving towards maximalist approaches and go back to the balance in the Peace Agreement.
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We travel with 20 indigenous activists of the world to the heart of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Listen to this story about the Kankuama Resistance.
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Discover some of the documentary pieces that we have made. Indigenous resistance, migration of Venezuelans to Colombia and stories of women coca growers, are some of our topics of interest.
