El Salvador: State of Exception and Attacks against Human Rights Defenders and Organizations Facilitate State Abuses
We call on the government of El Salvador to comply with its international commitments on human rights and cease attacks against national and international civil society organizations that work for the protection of fundamental rights.
By Dejusticia | | El Salvador, Human Rights, Populism
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.
By Dejusticia | | Human Rights, Russia, Ukraine, War
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El Salvador: State of Exception and Attacks against Human Rights Defenders and Organizations Facilitate State Abuses
By Dejusticia | | El Salvador, Human Rights, Populism
Washington DC., March 31, 2022.- This past weekend was one of the most violent in El Salvador. At least 80 people were killed in different parts of the country, allegedly ...
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INCLO condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and joins calls for an immediate cease fire
By Dejusticia | | Human Rights, Russia, Ukraine, War
The undersigned member organizations of the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) stand with the global civil society in bluntly condemning the massive violation of international humanitarian law and ...
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Get involved! Our fellowship program for human rights defenders from the Global South is now open!
By Dejusticia | | Becas, Fellowship, Sur Global
The closure of civic spaces has strengthened the need for international human rights actors to support one another’s work and amplify each one’s voice in the global arena. In solidarity ...
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Digital technologies and political campaigns: a risk for the 2022 elections?
By Dejusticia | | 2022 elections, Data protection, Presidential campaing, Technology and human rights
The documentary The Great Hack drew attention on how the alliance with Cambridge Analytica and the combination of microtargeting in social media and fake news would end up giving Donald ...
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The ABCs of the Social Protest and Human Rights Crisis in Colombia
By Daniela Jiménez González, Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez | | Colombia, Estados Unidos, Policía, Protesta, Violencia
Since April 28, when various sectors of society went on strike, Colombia has been caught in the middle of repression by law enforcement, a stigmatizing response by the national government, ...
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Protests in Colombia: 650 civil society organizations call for urgent action from IACHR
By Mariana Escobar Roldán | | Colombia, IACHR, Protests in Colombia, Violence in Colombia
Given the fragile institutional situation and the seriousness of human rights violations in Colombia, a group of 650 organizations, including Dejusticia, made a joint call to the Inter-American Commission on ...
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Colombian Democracy in the Streets
By Vivian Newman Pont | | Colombia, Democracy, Human Rights, Iván Duque, Social Protests
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.
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By Maritza Florián Buitrago, Erin Formby | | Climate Change, United States
If States like Texas with ample means to tackle climate change fail to do so, the world as a whole fails given that the planet loses momentum in the collective effort to become more resilient against this phenomenon.
Lea más Despite Biden’s Victory, Authoritarian Populism Continues to Threaten U.S. Democracy
By Erin Formby | | Democracy, Populism, United States
The Republican Party violates norms which protect democracy more frequently than 85% of other political parties leading democracies around the world. Their lack of commitment to these norms shows that the U.S. political system could be weakened even further if another antidemocratic leader comes to power.
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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.
