Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’
INCLO condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and joins calls for an immediate cease fire
As INCLO members, we raise our collective voice to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its violation of international law, and the war crimes and human rights violations being committed against the people in Ukraine.
Read More“Protecting Human Rights on the Ground,” a report on UNHCR country offices
This research is intended to offer tools to the Venezuelan human rights movement, to other civil society organizations, and to States who have an interest in the establishment of a UNHCR office in Venezuela.
Read MoreREQUIEM FOR JUSTICE: 44 writers, musicians and activists rally against social injustice and oppression amidst Covid-19
28-29-30 August 2020 at 5:00PM GMT, 12:00PM Bogotá – Online
Read MoreDejusticia welcomes Mary Lawlor’s appointment as the new UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
In continuity with the Michel Forst’s work, we hope that the Special Rapporteur will visit Colombia and follow up on the report made by her predecessor
Read MoreControlling the Pandemic, Guaranteeing Rights
Already in various cases, such measures have been used to consolidate governmental power and to weaken the opposition, often using the health crisis as a pretext.
Read MoreEnlaza Venezuela arrives on October 2nd to the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá
This will be an event that will show attendees the different paths that exist to support organizations that continue to work to transform the situation in Venezuela.
Read MoreLeaders Assassinated in Colombia: how many are left out of the counts?
This analysis by Dejusticia and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group groups the information compiled by different organizations regarding the homicides of social leaders in the country and concludes, through a statistical method, that the problem has a greater magnitude than what is reported.
Read MoreFormer President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada will go to trial in the US for his role in the massacre of more than 50 citizens
This Marks the First Time in U.S. History a Former Head of State Will Sit Before His Accusers in a Civil Human Rights Trial
Read MoreThe foreign minister’s silence on Colombians imprisoned in Venezuela
More than 60 innocent Colombians sleep in Venezuelan jail cells. Although similar situations have resulted in diplomatic confrontations between Venezuela and countries such as Brazil, in Colombia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, María Ángela Holguín has kept a low profile.
Read MoreRegulate the illicit market: a drug policy model with a human rights approach
In a publication by the KAS Foundation, Dejusticia researchers analyze the costs and benefits of different strategies used in the so-called war on drugs.
Read MoreMilitant hope
Hope should not only be cautious but militant: young people around the world should mobilize against politicians like Trump who are willing to damage the world in which they, the young, will live tomorrow.
Read More21st century socialism, dictatorship or rebellion?
The Venezuelan government is advancing in its plan to dismantle the 1999 Bolivarian Constitution. And it is the 21st century rebels who defend democracy and human rights against the heirs of 21st century socialism who abdicated their democratic promise.
Read MoreFrantz and war
Frantz, a film by the French director François Ozon, deals with the absurdity of war and the terrible fate of societies entangled in it.
Read MoreConstitutional Control for the Police Code
The constitutional control of the Police Code is absolutely necessary to prevent arbitrariness against citizens , to which the Congress of the Republic left us exposed.
Read MoreHomophobia without borders
In the 21st century, homophobia shows its worst face in Chechnya. 100 homosexuals have been hunted as animals by the authorities and three of them were killed.
Read MoreVenezuela, welcome to Colombia
Our Venezuelan brothers and sisters are migrating to Colombia in search of a dignified life. The authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro is creating the worst humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
Read MoreThe moon of Ms. María
Moonlight, the winner of the Oscar for best film, and Miss Maria: the skirt of the mountain, the Colombian documentary by Rubén Mendoza, tell two necessary stories to better understand the lives of those who live and feel a sexuality other than the heterosexual one.
Read MoreIt’s not Trump, it’s the United States: a history of racism and xenophobia
The idea of nation is beautiful. But I believe, as a US citizen, that as long as fear subsists, the idea will remain just that.
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.
