What happens at CND 67, the international forum where the future of drug policy is decided
The historic presence of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Colombia's leading role and frustration at the slow progress towards a new global monitoring system. Analysis of the first day of the CND in Vienna.
By Dejusticia | | CND67, Colombia, Drug policy, UN
Latin America in 2024, according to Paulo Ilich Bacca
Our deputy director answers five questions about some urgent debates in the region for this year.
By Dejusticia | | Global South, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America
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What happens at CND 67, the international forum where the future of drug policy is decided
By Dejusticia | | CND67, Colombia, Drug policy, UN
As they do every March, the member countries of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) meet in plenary session in Vienna. For years, this diplomatic scenario has served ...
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By Dejusticia | | Global South, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America
In El Sur Global, Dejusticia's international newsletter, we share ideas and analysis from our valuable group of researchers. In this first edition of 2024, it was the turn of Paulo ...
Lea más Climate justice requires a development agenda from the South
By Sergio Chaparro Hernández | | Climate Change, climate justice, COP28, Global South, Human Rights
In climate circles, last year closed with bittersweet analyses on what happened at COP 28 in Dubai. The final declaration spoke for the first time of the need to “transition ...
Lea más Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean in the management and protection of migrants’ rights
By Lina Arroyave Velásquez | | Borders, Global South, Human Rights, migration
Migration continues to increase worldwide. According to current figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2020, there were approximately 281 million international migrants, representing 3.6% of the global ...
Lea más Ecuador: a question of security in Latin America
By Laura Sofia Forero Alba, Christy Crouse | | Ecuador, Global South, Human Rights, Prison Conditions, violence
On January 8, Ecuador's president, Daniel Noboa, declared a state of emergency following riots in several of the country's prisons and the escape of Jose Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito". Through ...
Lea más A story of uncertainty and access to information: the search for missing persons in Latin America
By Paula Andrea Valencia Cortés, Jorge Lule | | Access to Information, CNB, México, Missing persons, UBPD
Where are the missing people? It is reasonable to think that the information that States hold should offer, at the very least, basic details about the situation of missing persons. ...
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The immigration policy of the United States and its implications in Latin America
By Ximena Ortiz Ortiz, Lina Arroyave Velásquez | | México, migration, Refugees, United States
The United States has implemented different measures to prevent the entry of migrants and refugees into its territory, including extending its immigration policy to Latin American countries.
Lea más The binationality of the Wayuu people: the pending debt of Venezuela and Colombia
By Dayanna Gladys Palmar Uriana, Paulo Ilich Bacca | | Colombia, Indigenous Peoples, migración, migration, Refugees, Venezuela
The Wayuu arrive in Colombia to seek refuge but crashes with a wall that prevents them from accessing social services and fundamental rights: the Colombian State has not recognized the binationality of the Wayuu people in practice.
Lea más The binationality of the Wayuu people: the vision from their cosmology
By Dayanna Gladys Palmar Uriana, Paulo Ilich Bacca | | Colombia, Indigenous Peoples, migración, migration, Refugees, Venezuela
The Wayuu people have demanded the recognition of their binationality, appealing to the legal and political link that unites them with Colombia and Venezuela, which should translate into a full guarantee of rights and citizenship in both countries.
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