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“Seville’s commitment” must not remain on paper
What we saw and heard in the previous forums—especially in the feminist and civil society space—made it clear to us that grassroots mobilization is key.
By Mariana Matamoros, Sergio Chaparro Hernández | | Financing for Development, Human Rights, ONU
Climate budgets
El presupuesto no es solo una hoja de cálculo. Es una herramienta política que define qué se protege y a quién se prioriza.
By Mariana Matamoros | | climate budgets, Tax policy, Taxes and climate change
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Inter-American Comission on Human Rights wants to investigate police abuses during the Buenaventura strike
By Dejusticia |
The situation of Afro-Colombian victims of violence reached the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) on July 5th. During a hearing in Lima, Peru, the Racial Discrimination Watch, the Black ...
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Search Unit for Missing Persons is urgent and crucial
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Vivian Newman Pont, Mauricio Albarracín, Maria Paula Ángel, Ana María Ramírez, Maryluz Barragán, Ana Jimena Bautista, Daniel Gómez, Gabriela Eslava |
Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in the revision process of the Decree-Law that creates the Search Unit for Missing Persons in the context and due to the armed conflict – ...
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Every hour nine people are detained for drug-related crimes
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Sergio Chaparro Hernández, Luis Felipe Cruz | | Cárceles, Delitos de drogas, Política de drogas
Imprisonment for drug offenses is making a major contribution to the overcrowding crisis in prisons across the country, which is 50%. In addition, it directly threatens the guarantee of the ...
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Decree that created the National Comprehensive Program for Crop Substitution is constitutional
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Isabel Pereira Arana, Carlos Andrés Baquero Díaz, Luis Felipe Cruz, Lucía Ramírez Bolívar, Maryluz Barragán | | Acuerdo de paz, Implementación Acuerdo, Sustitución de cultivos
The National Comprehensive Program for Crop Substitution (PNIS) is an indispensable tool in overcoming the structural causes that lead families to join the economy of illicit crops. Given the importance ...
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10 reasons why drug policy needs to be shaken up
By Dejusticia | | Drogas
The United Nations declared June 26 as the "International Day to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking." More than 40 years of the war on drugs (which started on June ...
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Open Applications for Intensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
By Dejusticia | | Derechos económicos, sociales-y-culturales-desc
This course will be taught by renowned scholars and jurists from Latin America and other regions such as Philip Alston (United Nations Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty), Rodrigo Uprimny (ESCR Committee ...
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I don’t care if they call me a dictator.
By Nina Chaparro González | | bukele, Democracia, 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, ONG, 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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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.
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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.
