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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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The Peruvian crisis and abusive constitutionalism
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | | Democracy, Human Rights, Perú, Program for strengthening - Perú, Protesta
The Peruvian Congress declared the vacancy or removal from office of President Martín Vizcarra, invoking Article 113 of the Constitution. The procedure appears to be formally appropriate. But the matter is more complicated than that.
Lea más International Humanitarian Law and Victims of Child Recruitment as Targets of an Attack
By Alejandro Jiménez Ospina, Aaron Alfredo Acosta | | Children, Colombia, Iván Duque, Military
An interpretation of the spirit of IHL, manifested in the principles of military necessity and humanity, as well as the IHRL standards applicable to children, should always prohibit the State from causing excessive death or injury. There is nothing more excessive than killing recruited children —vulnerable, discriminated against, and abandoned by the State— in order to gain a military advantage that could have been achieved through other means.
Lea más The Duque Government Before the United Nations: A Zero in Conduct
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, Jessica Corredor Villamil | | Colombia, Iván Duque, Refuerzo al SIDH
Above all of this disorder, something remains constant: the Duque government’s decided interest to weaken international supervision of human rights not only in the Interamerican system, but also in the United Nations.
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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.
