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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A group of global activists will visit Colombia to discuss solutions to face the planetary crisis
By Dejusticia | | Atlantic Fellows, Atlantic Institute, Climate Change, global activism
Dejusticia and the Atlantic Institute based at the Rhodes Trust in Oxford, UK, are honored to announce the Global Convening on Planetary Health and a Just Transition, to be held ...
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Together for a fair tax world
By Mariana Matamoros | | América Latina, global justice, Latin America, taxes
International tax cooperation is fundamental to creating global governance that enables all countries to work together effectively and fairly. It ensures that all nations, regardless of size or wealth, have ...
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A human rights-based approach to tax systems
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Mariana Matamoros | | Equity, Fiscal justice, Human Rights, Tax cooperation, Tax justice
Tax systems are very important to help the economy recover and to enable the government to better manage its money. However, they have often lacked a human rights perspective, which ...
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The global ideal: fair taxation
By Mariana Matamoros | | fiscal policy, Tax cooperation, Tax justice
As the famous John Lennon song goes, "Imagine all the people living life in peace". But what if we were to take that idea and apply it to something more ...
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Every dose counts (and costs): Access to antiretrovirals and compulsory licensing
By María Gabriela Vargas Parada | | Antirretrovirales, Bussiness and Human Rights, Colombia, compulsory licensing
In 1985, Ron Woodroof, a Texas cowboy played by Matthew McConaughey in "Dallas Buyers Club," contracted HIV at a time when a diagnosis was almost a death sentence. The disease ...
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On the path to corporate accountability: the Global South and the new European due diligence law
By Julián Gutiérrez Martínez, Berta Flores Aricò | | bussines responsability, Bussiness and Human Rights, european law, Global South, ley europea, responsabilidad empresarial, Sur Global
There seems to be an international system of impunity that has been protecting multinational companies from liability for decades and continues today. In 1992, the U.S. oil company Texaco committed ...
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Energy transition and human rights in the Global South
By Laura Santacoloma, Umo Isua-Ikoh | | Cambio climático, Climate Change, Environment, Medio Ambiente, Nigeria
The lack of a human rights and energy policy feeds the growing conflict in the territories. It will be hard to end all forms of violence associated with our reliance on fossil fuels at any cost until we decide to retrace our steps by focusing on a just transition.
Lea más Resisting authoritarian tendencies in Latin America
By Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Christy Crouse | | Democracy, Human Rights, Latin America, Populism
Although the fight against authoritarian tendencies cannot be addressed simply with rights and the people who defend them, we believe that these types of strategies, insofar as they articulate different social sectors, contribute to the deepening of democratic practices.
Lea más 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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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.
