Defend the ICC: INCLO national human rights organizations call on states to protect international rule of law against United States attack
If left unanswered, it will set a precedent that will go beyond the ICC itself: that any country with sufficient power can threaten the institutions and individuals responsible for enforcing international law.
By Dejusticia | | Human Rights, ICC, International Criminal Court, International Justice, multilateralism, United States
Defending human rights around the world requires funding
Fiscal policy is no longer a purely economic issue; it has become the cornerstone of sustainable development.
By Mariana Matamoros | | CIDH, Derechos Humanos, Desigualdad, Global South, IACHR, Inequality, Justicia Fiscal, Public spending, Sustainable development., Tax cooperation, Tax justice, Tax policy
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Defend the ICC: INCLO national human rights organizations call on states to protect international rule of law against United States attack
By Dejusticia | | Human Rights, ICC, International Criminal Court, International Justice, multilateralism, United States
As national human rights organizations working across every region of the globe, we are alarmed by the campaign announced by the United States Department of State to “dismantle” the International ...
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Defending human rights around the world requires funding
By Mariana Matamoros | | CIDH, Derechos Humanos, Desigualdad, Global South, IACHR, Inequality, Justicia Fiscal, Public spending, Sustainable development., Tax cooperation, Tax justice, Tax policy
We live in a time when major global challenges—inequality, the climate crisis, and technological transformations, among others—require governments to have greater capacity to guarantee rights and promote the well-being of ...
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Who should collect taxes when services cross borders?
By Mariana Matamoros | | Digital economy, Digital taxes, International taxation, Justicia Fiscal, Sustainable development., Tax justice, Tributación internacional, United Nations
For decades, international tax rules were designed for an economy very different from today’s. In that world, companies produced physical goods and had factories and offices in the countries where ...
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From Taxes to Rights
By Mariana Matamoros | | CIDH, Fiscal justice, fiscal policy, Human Rights, IACHR, Justicia Fiscal, Public budget, Public investment, Social inequality., Tax policy, taxes
Let’s imagine for a moment a public school in a rural area, a hospital that treats hundreds of people every day, or a drinking water system that serves a community ...
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Three Borders, One Life: The Struggle of Three Trans Migrant Women in Colombia
By Lina Arroyave, Néstor Hernández | | LGBTIQ+ rights, migration colombia-venezuela, migratory controls, trans women
Leaving behind who they’re supposed to be, their family, their hometown, and even the life others decided for them—this is the story of many trans women who flee to save ...
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Between Dependency and Diversification: Agrarian Reform in Colombia and the Shift in International Cooperation
By Carlos Quesada, José Ignacio de la Torre | | Agrarian reform, Belt and Road, Colombia-China Relations, Foreign Investment, International cooperation, Paz territorial, Paz territorial, Territorial Peace, USAID
Since 2023, Colombia and China have announced bilateral agreements in which China committed to providing commercial support for agrarian reform. Colombia’s accession to the Belt and Road Initiative in 2025 ...
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An Independent DANE?
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | | Acceso a la información, Colombia, Reforma a la justicia, Reforma a la justicia
Now that the balance of powers has been discussed so widely, is it not worth it to promote a truly independent statistical public institution? (DANE is the Colombian government's bureaucracy charged with developing statistical reports, much like the U.S. CBO)
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By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) | | Medio Ambiente, Minería, Recursos naturales, Recursos naturales
We need to "deradicalize" the debate about the environment.
Lea más Did the Amazon’s lifesaver get punctured?
By Carlos Andrés Baquero Díaz, Diana Rodríguez Franco | | Medio Ambiente, Minería, Recursos naturales
The Santos adminsitration's good intentions in the Amazon have been undone by its own actions. As told by La Silla Vacía, in August 2012 ex-Minster of the Environment Frank Pearl, before leaving office, threw a lifesaver for the Amazon. Pearl released Resolution 1518 of 2012, which establishes that no one can drill any part of the Amazon classified as Forest Reserve (according to Law 2 of 1959) for mining activities, until the Ministry of the Environment zoned the territory. In other words, until it defined which areas of the Amazon territory classified as Forest Reserve-- the large majority (see Map 1)-- should be protected and which can house economic projects, among them mining.
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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.
