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
News
Search in News
Straddling borders: a journey of indigenous identity and sovereignty
By Autry Johnson | | Identidad, Indígenas, Pueblos indígenas, soberania indígena
Since immemorial, my father’s people, the Potawatomi of the Anishinaabek Nation, have traversed, managed, and lived in peace in the Great Lakes – the world’s largest freshwater lakes. Known as ...
Lea más 
Indigenous peoples in cross-border mobility. An unknown phenomenon that deserves attention.
By Dejusticia | | Migración Colombia-Venezuela, Pueblos indígenas
Guest author: Sebastián Hurtado Estrada, advocacy lawyer of the Counsel for Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Human Rights and Peace of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia. The Political Constitution of ...
Lea más 
New Book Collating Nutrition Labeling Experiences in Latin America Launched
By Dejusticia | | Nutrition Labeling, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization
A new book, co-edited by Dejusticia, Universidad de los Andes and the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, Latin American activists and researchers share their experience promoting front of package warning label ...
Lea más 
Gender identity and migration in South Africa: a layered experience
By Muyenga Bobo Mugerwa-Sekawabe | | Identidad de género, lgbtiq, Sudáfrica
LGBTQIA+ identities are criminalised in 38 of 54 African countries. This includes Malawi, the southern African nation where, in 2010, Tiwonge Chimbalanga was imprisoned two days after celebrating her engagement ...
Lea más 
Trafficked migrant and refugee women in Latin America: State responses and challenges
By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar | | Crisis en Venezuela, Migración Colombia-Venezuela, trata de personas
Yolanda arrived in Colombia with her two daughters and husband because of a job offer to sell red wine and other hot beverages. The offer included payment for transportation, food ...
Lea más 
Borders, forced migration and differential approaches
By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar, Margarita Martínez Osorio, Carmen Mestizo Castillo | | Discriminación de género, Fronteras, migración forzada, Pueblos indígenas
Borders are human creations that seek to establish unions but, above all, boundaries. What does it mean to be an indigenous nation living in a territory divided by a border? ...
Lea más Search in Opinion
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.
Lea más
Stories
FromTheTerritory
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.
Dejusticia's
Documentaries
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.
