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Fourth United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4)

“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 | Oct 10, 2025 | Financing for Development, Human Rights, ONU
Prioritize life over profit.

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 | Oct 10, 2025 | climate budgets, Tax policy, Taxes and climate change

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Fourth United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4)

“Seville’s commitment” must not remain on paper

By Mariana Matamoros, Sergio Chaparro Hernández | Oct 10, 2025 | 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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Prioritize life over profit.

Climate budgets

By Mariana Matamoros | Oct 10, 2025 | 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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Public policies that guarantee rights

Taxes and spending with a sense of social justice

By Mariana Matamoros | Oct 10, 2025 | 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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“Behind every tax there is a political decision.”

By Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Mariana Matamoros | Oct 10, 2025 | 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 | Oct 2, 2025 | 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  | Sep 1, 2025 | 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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Schools with Manuals that Bully

By Nina Chaparro González | Jun 10, 2015 | Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Discriminación, Género

The student conduct manuals are like a carte blanche of the small kingdoms known as schools.

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Dejusticia Intervenes in Sergio Urrego’s Case Against Homophobic Bullying in Schools

By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Nina Chaparro González, Vivian Newman Pont | Jun 9, 2015 | Derechos Humanos

Dejusticia presented an amicus curiae (a document that outlines a legal concept) to support the writ of constitutional protection proceeding filed by Sergio Urrego's mother against his former school, the Gimnasio Castillo Campestre. Sergio Urrego was a young victim who committed suicide on September 5th, 2014 as a result of homophobic bullying he experienced in his school.

In the document, Dejusticia asked the Court to revoke the sentence referred to by the Second Section of the Council of State and protect the rights requested by Sergio's mother.

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What Could Happen If Latin America Questions the Utopia of a World without Drugs at the UN?

By Luis Felipe Cruz | Jun 9, 2015 | Derechos económicos, Derechos fundamentales, Drogas, Organismos Internacionales, sociales-y-culturales-desc
The prohibitionist utopia of a “world without drugs” expressed in the Conventions on Narcotic Drugs signed in 1961, 1971, and 1988, is just that: an unreachable utopia.
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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.


Dejusticia's Documentaries

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.

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