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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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Gender Inequality in the Labor Market: An Unresolved Challenge in Developing Countries

By Juan Andrés Páez López | Mar 3, 2015 | Banco Mundial, Derechos de las mujeres, Derechos sociales, Desigualdad, Países en vía de desarollo
Global South countries cannot be content to have greater levels of women’s participation in the labor force if these do not go together with lower unemployment levels and higher salaries.
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Doubly (in)fallible?

By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | Mar 1, 2015 | Drogas, Estado de Derecho, Narcotráfico, Narcotráfico


I was convinced that the charismatic Pope Francis was doubly infallible. First for being Pope, as according to the First Vatican Council of 1870, the Supreme Pontiff does not make mistakes, at least when his declarations have benefited from the assistance of the Holy Spirit. And second for being an Argentine... well at least Argentines seem to think that makes you infallible.

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Democratic Judicial Independence

By Mauricio García Villegas | Feb 28, 2015 | Colombia, Estado de Derecho, Estado de Derecho, Justicia, Justicia, Latinoamérica, Rama Judicial, Rama Judicial

Jules Jouy, a nineteenth century Frenchman, said that there were three types of judges: those that decide standing, those that decide sitting in their chairs, and those that decide laying face down. 

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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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