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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COP30: when food came to the climate change negotiating table
By Adriana Carolina Torres Bastidas | | Climate Change, COP30, Right to Food
COP30 planted a seed that could transform the way we think about the right to food. I am not just referring to the COP's food and catering spaces, where priority ...
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Beyond COP30: the dispute over a just transition in the face of corporate power
By Julián Gutiérrez Martínez, Paula Garavito | | Climate Change, COP30, fossil fuel industry, Just transition
The COP30 in Belém was a forum for dispute. It was marked by the vehement presence of social movements, Indigenous peoples, and human rights organizations from the Global South, who ...
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Open call for Global North fellowships 2026
By Dejusticia | | fellowship for 2026, Global North, Human Rights
If you are passionate about working for human rights, want to gain experience in this field, and be part of a collaborative and creative team consisting of academic-activists from Colombia ...
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and Multispecies Justice in the Andes
By Paulo Ilich Bacca | | Bolivia, Indigenous Peoples, Multispecies justice, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
I walk through La Paz and, as usual, the city vibrates with its everyday chaos: vendors call out from crowded streets, minibuses weave around the plazas, the aroma of api drifts from ...
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Children defenders of human rights
By Camila Gómez Cortés | | Child advocates, Constitutional Court, Corte Constitucional, Freedom of Expression, LGBTIQ+ rights, Libertad de expresión
In 1975, the demonstrations for student bus passes in Argentina were led by secondary school students between the ages of 13 and 18, who were later detained, tortured, and disappeared ...
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Catatumbo: humanitarian crisis and internal unrest
By Liz Carolina Bermudez | | Catatumbo, Colombia, Constitutional Court, humanitarian crisis, state of emergency
The Catatumbo region is located in Colombia, in Norte de Santander, an area bordering Venezuela. It is a territory of great biological, natural, and cultural wealth, including a tropical rainforest ...
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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.
