Area-Education
Get involved! Our fellowship program for human rights defenders from the Global South is now open!
If you belong to an organization that defends human rights in a country in the Global South that is in an emergency or high risk context, we invite you to participate in our fellowship program so that, with our support, you can develop your projects.
Read MoreEngaging with Big Business: Seeking Accountability for the Human Rights Impacts of Corporate Activities
A course on Business and Human Rights organized by Dejusticia
Read MoreIndigenous Leaders of the World: Register for the Third Global Indigenous Workshop
The concept of the “living jungle” will be the guide for this workshop, which will occur in December in the territory of the Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Applications open until July 10.
Read More7th Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates
The goal of the Workshop is to strengthen the writing and advocacy skills of the participants.
Read MoreBusiness and Human Rights: New responses to ensure Human Rights are guaranteed in corporate activities
A course on Business and Human Rights organized by Dejusticia
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 MoreJustice through Transitions: Conflict, Peacemaking and Human Rights in the Global South
What does justice mean in times of transition? What kinds of possibilities and dissapointments emerge from processes of seeking justice through transition? How might we understand these processes through narrative?
Read MoreDejusticia launches virtual platform for its alumni
We know how important it is to strengthen the links between activists and members of civil society organizations that participate in our academic and training activities, so we present: ‘Dejusticia Connect’.
Read MoreA different campaign
A campaign has just been launched in Medellín. Instead of focusing on the non-compliers, it highlights those who comply. One of the posters of the campaign says “In Medellin, eight out of ten people prefer to dialogue to resolve a conflict, just like you”.
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 MoreIncreasing accountability
Some economic leaders and columnists have criticized our Increasing Accountability report. Beyond the conclusions that other readers may reach, I believe that a profound and dispassionate reading of the book shows that these criticisms do not have any basis.
Read MoreExecutive Summary Decision T-543 of 2017
The Constitutional Court held that the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce censored the organization Educar Consumidores, and it cautioned the Superintendency that henceforth it could not exercise prior control over informational
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Mourning
Last week, two young students resolved a seemingly unimportant dispute with arms. Hopefully the collective mourning for these two boys, their families, and for society itself serves to recognize the marked setback in educational policy, a product, among other reasons, of Ministry of Education’s politicization.
Read MoreOsamah, the Yemeni activist who has not seen reconciliation
El Colombiano, a newspaper in Medellín, interviewed Osama Al Fakih, a human rights defender from Yemen, who was part of our 5th Global Workshop. The event, held in August in Cali and Bogotá, brought 15 activists from around the world who debated the need to reopen civil society spaces to defend human rights.
Read MoreFighting the tide: Human Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global South
This text forms part of a long-term project undertaken by Dejusticia as part of its international work. The project revolves around the Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates that Dejusticia organizes each year to foster connections among and train a new generation of action researchers.
Read MoreTaking religion seriously
The results of the plebiscite to approve the Peace Agreement showed us that it is time to take religion seriously and to dispute the right’s political predominance in spiritual matters.
Read MoreThe example of teachers
The university does not only have the task of preparing good professionals, but of forming honest citizens, and teachers are key in that mission. The book Academy and Citizenship explores the fulfillment of academic and citizenship standards by teachers in Antioquia.
Read MoreAcademia and citizenship: university professors meeting and violating norms
What do higher education teachers understand about the concept of non-compliance? What are their main faults? This research, with 605 teachers from Antioquia, begins from these questions.
Read MoreOpen Applications for Intensive Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Intensive Course on Social Rights opens its application process, open until August 15, 2017. The course, which will be taught from October 23 to 27, 2017 in Bogotá, offers advanced training on litigation, research, jurisprudence and innovative strategies for implementing social rights.
Read MoreOpen Applications to the 15th International Human Rights Colloquium
If you are a human rights activist or an agent of social transformation in Latin America, Africa or Asia, apply to the 15th International Human Rights Colloquium, which will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from October 1 to 6, 2017.
Read MoreAn organization with collective leadership: our history reviewed in the Leader Network
The Leader Network chose Dejusticia to initiate the series of profiles on collective leadership. The profile published in Silla Vacía investigates three fundamental measures of leadership: vision, example and results.
Read MoreCall for applications to the fifth Global Action-Research Workshop is now open
The purpose of the workshop is to strengthen the research, writing and advocacy capacity of its participants and their contributions to their organizations and the international human rights movement in general. Call open until 31 March.
Read MoreFirst Global Workshop on Human Rights Strategies for Indigenous Leaders in the Global South
Dejusticia and the Racial Discrimination Watch opens their call to the First Global Workshop on Human Rights Strategies for Indigenous Leaders in the Global South. The workshop will be held in Colombia in December 2017. The call for proposals is open until June 10th.
Read MoreCall for applications to the fifth Global Action-Research Workshop is now open
The theme of Dejusticia’s fifith annual Global Action-Research Workshop in 2017 will be reopening civil society spaces in the Global South. Dejusticia invites applications from young professionals from the Global South who are engaged in advocacy around this theme until the 31st of March
Read MoreExtractivism versus human rights: chronicles of the mined fields in the Global South
Un nuevo acercamiento a los derechos humanos: escritura reflexiva por autores activistas de organizaciones defensoras que considera el potencial, los logros y desafíos de su práctica.
Read More“One realizes that what has been done in Colombia isn’t so terrible”
Leonarda De la Ossa, Activist from Montes de María, talks about her experience in the Action-Research Global School.
Read MoreHuman Rights in Minefields
This book compiles accounts from sixteen action-researchers from the global South about different human rights issues in their respective countries. It is the result of the first Global Action-Research Workshop hosted and organized by Dejusticia.
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