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Apply to our 2023 call for fellowships

The fellowship program is an opportunity for mutual exchange, both so that they can learn about the tools and action-research strategies that we develop in Dejusticia, and so that Dejusticia can learn from their experience and that of their organizations.

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Is Democracy in Brazil at stake?

Following what some consider a coup attempt on January 8, Brazil’s federal powers are taking action against the far right. Will they be able to act decisively without undermining the institutions they defend?

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Are Human Rights Still Effective?

In 2018, we brought together activists from 11 Global South countries to reflect on the importance of human rights in contexts where their effectiveness has been questioned. Their conclusions were compiled in the book Reimagining the Future of Human Rights.

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Not Pretty in Pink: The Undisclosed Fashions of Farmed Salmon

People often choose cuts with bright pink to reddish hues, under the impression that these are fresher, tastier, and of better quality, thus warranting premium prices. The reality, however, is that “color does not affect these characteristics” and, in the case of farmed salmon, this color is actually manufactured.

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Tongue Twisters of the State

Around 97% of the world’s population speaks approximately 4% of the world’s existing languages. Put differently, around 96% of languages are spoken by about 3% of the global population. Linguistic diversity is being preserved by only a handful of people.

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The Amazon is burning

Part of the solution lies in achieving greater effective control in the territory and economic incentives aligned with conservation. There is not a reason or actor that is single-handedly responsible for what is happening. And although neither the burning nor deforestation are totally new, today they are out of control.

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Do they want to polarize us?

Every day, at all times, through all possible forms of communication, I am told that Colombia is a completely polarized country that only understands extremes. Mu intuition tells me that the political reality of my country is not so simple. I will explain my reasoning.

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Scorpions in a bottle

President Trump threatened the North Korean president this week with a “fire and fury” attack that, he said, “the world has never seen before.” It is incredible that the stability of the planet is in the hands of such characters. How is it possible that despite so many advances that humanity has had our institutions are in the hands of clumsy and volatile characters?

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Space

In Colombia we are parochial and self-absorbed. We need a way of dealing with our individual and social smallness, other than religion, maximalist ideology or contempt for others.

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Time

We live between the frenetic present of political activity and the unattainable future of preachers, without any of these time frames allowing us to anticipate the country that we will have in three or four decades.

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See, Feel, and then Act

As human rights activists we should think about how to frame the message so it carries the hope of justice and calls for action, either to provide relief to the victims or to change underlying conditions for the future.

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