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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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“Seville’s commitment” must not remain on paper
By Mariana Matamoros, Sergio Chaparro Hernández | | Financing for Development, Human Rights, ONU
Just a few weeks ago, we were in Seville, Spain, where we had the privilege of participating in the Fourth United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4). From ...
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Climate budgets
By Mariana Matamoros | | climate budgets, Tax policy, Taxes and climate change
When we hear the phrase "climate change," we probably think of heat waves, heavy rains, forest fires, or natural disasters. And when we hear about the "national budget," the first ...
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Taxes and spending with a sense of social justice
By Mariana Matamoros | | Climate Change, Colombia, Justicia Fiscal, Tax justice, Tax policy, taxes
In this edition of the Newsletter, we propose looking at fiscal policy not as a technical tool, but as a political and ethical instrument for reducing inequalities and guaranteeing human ...
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What’s in the shopping cart: the hidden history of “neutral” taxes
By Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Mariana Matamoros | | care work, Inequality, neutral taxes, tax system
Every Saturday morning, Tatiana repeats the same ritual: she takes her notebook, checks what's left in the cupboard, and calculates how much she can spend at the supermarket. She lives ...
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The Hungarian Case and its Anti-NGO Laws
By Nina Chaparro González, Oliver Hodges-Jackson | | Authoritarianism, civil society, Closure of civil society spaces, NGOs non-governmental organizations
If you drop a frog into boiling water, it will jump out immediately. But if you slowly increase the temperature, it will stay until its too late. That’s how civic ...
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Reclaiming multilateralism for a shared future
By Christy Crouse, Abby Steckel | | Estados Unidos, Multilateralismo, Trump
“The whole island seemed to be on fire,” recalls a resident of Providencia Island as Hurricane Iota passed through in 2020, leaving thousands of homes, hospitals, churches, and schools destroyed. ...
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Prisons: What Force Can’t Do
By Juan Sebastián Hernández Moreno | | Cárceles
“Heavy-handed” policies on crime in many countries in the Americas have not only brought prisons to crises around the continent, but have also failed to reduce crime and recidivism. A more humane penitentiary system, not one of terror, seems to be the solution that our continent needs.
Lea más Two fights in one: feminism and environmentalism
By Vanessa Daza, Ariana Athena Lippi | | Climate change, Womens Rights
Only in as much as we coordinate the efforts will we be able to erradicate gender inequality and encounter a solution to the ecological crisis that we are experiencing.
Lea más The “Lock Him Up” Paradox
By Meghan Morris | | Justice, Justice, Transitional Justice, Transitional Justice
What if we treated criminal prosecution and sentencing as a question of how to rebuild society?
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Stories
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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.
