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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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Military Intelligence
By Mauricio García Villegas | | Army, Chuzadas, Colombia, Colombia, Educación, Educación, Education, Ejército, Ejército, False Positives, Falsos Positivos, Falsos Positivos, Militares, Militares, Military, Wire Tapping
In a country that is in fourth to last place in PISA student-testing, where no university is among the top 400 of the world and no research center is among the top 600, it is deplorable (to say the least) that we only speak about intelligence when we denounce abuses of so-called “military intelligence.”
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By Carlos Andrés Baquero Díaz | | Inter-American HR Court, Land Use
The Court ordered their governments to protect their rights, such as their right to free, prior, informed consultation and their right to their territory. Yet, in every case, the governments have failed to obey the Court’s orders.
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By Mauricio García Villegas | | Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Colombia, Colombia, Democracia, Democracy, Desigualdad, Desigualdad, Economía, Economía, Economics, Equality, Estados Unidos, Igualdad, Inequality, Injusticia, Injusticia, Movilidad social, Movilidad social, Pobreza, Pobreza, Poverty, Social mobility, United States
Some weeks I can't find a topic to write about and on others I have too many topics. On this occassion I have in mind three topics: one about the Oxfam report about global inequality published on January 20th, another about President Obama´s State of the Union last Tuesday, and another about a conference that Michael Sandel gave last Thursday at Los Andes University.
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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.
