Workshop on creative activism Days of Hope is coming to Caquetá on the 21st of September
Dejusticia, PID Amazonía, the Red Cross Bogotá and Tell are getting together in Florencia to hold the first event of this international initiative that combines art and social mobilization.
By Dejusticia |
Losing Ground: The Sixth Extinction and Development
The changes we have triggered on Earth shatter the distance and sense of remoteness that have governed our relationship with other species and the environment. This is a call to once again recognize our profound interdependence with our environment and protect it—if not for nature’s sake, then for our own.
By Joyce Tan, Sebastián Rojas |
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Attention! Job Opportunity at Dejusticia
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia is seeking a dynamic International Area Director who will both lead and work alongside the team to ensure the efficient functioning of the international area in its multiple tasks.
The Colombian government has failed to fulfill the Supreme Court’s landmark order to protect the Amazon
By Santiago Ardila Sierra |
One year ago, the Colombian Supreme Court declared the Colombian Amazon a subject of rights, ordering the government to take measures to preserve it by curbing deforestation. However, the government has not taken sufficient action; meanwhile, threats to the rainforest continue to grow.
Join our Petition in Change.org: We want zero deforestation in the Amazon
By Dejusticia |
We, the 25 children and youth who won the first case in Latin America involving climate change and future generations, met with experts and civil society organizations in Colombia to ask our Congress, #LetsChangeTheGoal on deforestation that President Iván Duque proposed in the National Development Plan (NDP) 2018-2022.
Closing of Civil Society spaces
Navigating Human Rights in a War-Torn Yemen
By Dejusticia |
Despite immensely difficult circumstances in a war-torn and diminishing space for activism, Mwatana for Human Rights has remained steadfast in its mission to defend human rights.
“Cúcuta: Emergency Exit,” A Special Series at the Frontlines
By Angélica María Cuevas Guarnizo, Carolina Gutiérrez |
Dejusticia (Colombia) and Provea (Venezuela) brought together ten journalists from Venezuela and three from Colombia to tell, through seven heartbreaking stories of suffering, sacrifice and hope at the border between the two countries.
Preventing Corporate Intimidation of Rightsholders
By Alejandro Jiménez Ospina |
Unfavorable news, a negative opinion of an opinion leader, or even an unfounded rumor can affect companies whose value depends to a large extent on the confidence of their shareholders and the public in their good behavior and the possibilities of obtaining profits by investing in them.
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