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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International justice: as fragile as it is necessary
By Paula Andrea Valencia Cortés | | Human Rights, ICC, Impunity, Inter-American System, International Criminal Court, International Justice, Multilateralism Crisis.
In different parts of the world, there are people who keep files and testimonies for years, clinging to the hope that one day there will be justice. When the courts ...
Lea más With judges on the chopping block, who will defend us?
By Kelly Giraldo Viana, Sofía Carrerá Martínez | | Authoritarianism, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Judicial Independence, Rule of Law, Venezuela, World Justice Project
“This is the story of a man / who knew very few letters / and dreamed of the justice / of comic book heroes / and disguised himself as good ...
Lea más Justice in check, but not yet a checkmate
By Paola Molano Ayala | | Authoritarianism, Democracy, Human Rights, International Criminal Court, International Justice, Rule of Law
Justice today faces a paradox: it is, at the same time, the last bulwark against arbitrariness and unchecked power, and one of the favorite targets of those who seek to ...
Lea más When discrimination determines who can travel
By William Morales Villalba | | Human Rights, migration, migratory controls
plane’s doors had closed did airline staff inform them that they could not board until they received a purported authorization email from the “Colombian Border Police.” This additional requirement did ...
Lea más How the U.S.’s Narrative Hurts Immigrants
By Christy Crouse, Thomas Gustafson | | Donald Trump, ICE, immigration, Immigration policies, United States
It is a regular day in one of the United States’s largest cities. People wearing masks are driving around in unmarked cars, raiding and picking up people off the street—kidnapping ...
Lea más COP30: transitions, hope, and discontent
By Diana Guarnizo | | Climate Change, COP30, Just transition, Right to Food
COP30, held in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025, left a bittersweet impression. Although it was one of the most well-attended COPs, where innovative topics related to food and climate finance ...
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Colombian Democracy in the Streets
By Vivian Newman Pont | | Colombia, Democracy, Human Rights, Iván Duque, Social Protests
Confronted with the violence in the protests, the government and political leaders, as well as social leaders, must first promote the de-escalation, putting human rights at the center of the crisis management.
Lea más From Snow Angels to a Humanitarian Emergency
By Maritza Florián Buitrago, Erin Formby | | Climate change, United States
If States like Texas with ample means to tackle climate change fail to do so, the world as a whole fails given that the planet loses momentum in the collective effort to become more resilient against this phenomenon.
Lea más Despite Biden’s Victory, Authoritarian Populism Continues to Threaten U.S. Democracy
By Erin Formby | | Democracy, Populism, United States
The Republican Party violates norms which protect democracy more frequently than 85% of other political parties leading democracies around the world. Their lack of commitment to these norms shows that the U.S. political system could be weakened even further if another antidemocratic leader comes to power.
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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.
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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.
