A group of global activists will visit Colombia to discuss solutions to face the planetary crisis
34 researchers and global activists from the Atlantic Fellows community will meet for a week in Bogotá to discuss a just transition to address the world's climate crisis. The week will have several key spaces to strengthen collective action and climate justice, as a prelude to COP16 in Cali, Colombia.
By Dejusticia | | Atlantic Fellows, Atlantic Institute, Climate Change, global activism
Together for a fair tax world
International tax cooperation is not just a matter of politics, but of global justice and respect for human rights. Only by working together and with strong leadership can we build a tax system that ensures the well-being of all people.
By Mariana Matamoros | | América Latina, global justice, Latin America, taxes
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Peasant rights: the recognition of an excluded actor
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | | Campesinado, Derecho a la tierra, El sur global, Víctimas
The struggle of the Colombian peasantry is relevant for international debates, both because of the injustices and violence peasants have faced and because of the progress this group has made ...
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The Right to Defend Rights in Colombia and Latin America
By Maryluz Barragán, Sindy Castro | | Defensores, Derecho a defender derechos, El sur global, Líderes sociales
On April 21, Narciso Beleño, a peasant leader and human rights defender who worked for more than three decades for the restitution of land and the sustainable exploitation of natural ...
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La Oroya: Lessons for litigation on air quality and public health in Latin America
By Diana Guarnizo | | Human Rights, La Oroya
La Oroya is a town in the department of Junín located in the central Sierra of Peru. Since the 1920s, a mining and metallurgical complex has been installed there, extracting ...
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Coordinated solutions to complex problems: the Enlaza programs
By Daniela Correa Agudelo, Isabel de Brigard | | Enlaza program, Global South, Human Rights
In the current context, the challenges shared by communities and people in seemingly distinct contexts are increasingly evident. The implications of the environmental emergency, the closing of civil society spaces, ...
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Hosting as Solidarity: Our Fellowship Program for Activists and Human Rights Defenders from the Global South
By Isabel de Brigard, Christy Crouse | | Fellowships, Global South, Human Rights
Our work as part of the human rights movement has always been carried out alongside individuals and partner organizations with whom we have collaborated to advance various agendas. The value ...
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An Amphibious Approach to Solidarity in the Field of Human Rights
By Isabel de Brigard | | Global South, Human Rights, Solidarity
For those of us who work in defense of human rights, issues related to solidarity are both theoretical questions and constant practical concerns. It is in the nature of our ...
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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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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.
