Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’
Leveraging the CELAC–EU Summit in Colombia to promote a fair fiscal agenda
Can the CELAC-EU Summit promote tax justice? The challenge is to connect the PTLAC and the UN Convention to finance sustainable development and human rights.
Read MoreWhat’s next for coca?
Maintaining the status quo on coca leaves sends a discouraging message about the international drug system.
Read More“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.
Read MoreHuman mobility under threat: How is Latin America responding?
In 2025, migration policies from the Global North intensify securitization and externalization of control, undermining fundamental rights in Latin America. This blog examines how the region, despite setbacks, can sustain rights-based responses and build alternatives to the criminalization of human mobility.
Read MoreWhen spending and freedoms are restricted. Milei’s Argentina
Since 2023, Javier Milei’s government in Argentina has advanced a harsh economic adjustment alongside restrictions on civic freedoms and repression of social protest. This text examines how these measures erode rights, entrench extractivist models, and threaten democracy, highlighting the urgency of defending protest as a democratic tool.
Read MoreBeing a migrant in times of surveillance
Biometric data, because it is personal and sensitive, requires rigorous handling, but today it is used without sufficient safeguards, exposing people to surveillance and discrimination.
Read MoreGrand Corruption in the New Global Context
We need to think about how to make the world a safer place, without affecting the economy and without losing democratic gains.
Read MoreClimate change reached the world’s highest court: a moment of hope for environmental justice
The International Court of Justice held a series of historic hearings regarding the most pressing problem of our times: climate change. We followed them from The Hague.
Read MoreOpen call for Global North fellowships 2025
This opportunity, for the second semester of 2025, allows for the exchange of tools and research-action strategies developed at Dejusticia, as well as the contributions of interns and fellows with their own experiences and those of their organizations.
Read MoreWe have fellowships for defenders from the Global South: Be part of the 2025 cohort!
This opportunity allows human rights defenders from countries in the Global South who are in emergency or high-risk situations to develop their projects and participate in an academic and cultural exchange in a safe space. Apply before January 31, 2025.
Read MoreReimagining the Future of Human Rights
The chapters in this book offer a snapshot of the current state of Human Rights that can help guide our work as activists and researchers.
Read MoreResisting authoritarian tendencies in Latin America
Although the fight against authoritarian tendencies cannot be addressed simply with rights and the people who defend them, we believe that these types of strategies, insofar as they articulate different social sectors, contribute to the deepening of democratic practices.
Read MoreColombian Democracy in the Streets
Confronted with the violence in the protests, the government and political leaders, as well as social leaders, must first promote the de-escalation, putting human rights at the center of the crisis management.
Read MoreProtecting Human Rights on the Ground
During the investigation, the presence of OHCHR completed its first six months in Venezuela, so a consultation with human rights defenders in the country was included to assess this experience. Being the first comparative research in this field, its findings are equally of interest to other audiences beyond Venezuela.
Read MoreThe Sarayaku and the Inter-American System on Human Rights: Justice for the “Medio Dia” People and their Living Jungle
Mario Melo Cevallos, lawyer of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, presents his version of the history of resistance and mobilization of the indigenous people before the State plans to exploit the oil that was in the heart of the Amazon.
Read MoreFrom repression to migration: The case of Rufo Chacón
Rufo Chacón, in the company of his mother, is preparing to travel to Spain, where he will get the surgical intervention needed to improve his condition.
Read MoreEighth Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates
We invite applications from young professionals from the Global South who are engaged in advocacy around migration
Read MoreVenezuela in a spiral
El Helicoide gets its name from the geometric shape of the building that houses the prison, which resembles a spiral. The crisis in the prison and the elections this Sunday could worsen the spiral of Maduro’s regime towards arbitrariness.
Read MorePalliative Care: A Human Rights Approach to Health Care
This edition is an English translation of “Cuidados paliativos: El abordaje de la atención en salud desde un enfoque de derechos humanos”, published by Dejusticia in August 2016; the data was not updated for the English translation.
Read MoreRising to the Populist Challenge
This book collects and analyzes a repertoire of responses by human rights organizations to the crackdown against civil society in the populist context.
Read MoreThe barbarians
Human groups have the tribal tendency to deny the humanity of anyone who belongs to a different culture.
Read MoreInternational order is threatened
The
first days of the new U.S. government have produced commotion around the world.
