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.
Read more Rethinking the Anti-Poverty Recipe
By Alejandro Rodríguez Llach |
Economic growth alone is not enough to alleviate extreme poverty. Instead, we need creative, targeted alternatives—like unconditional cash transfers and livestock donations.
Read more A Chain of Inequalities
By Hobeth Martínez |
The decline of redistributive agrarian reforms coupled with growing patterns of land concentration and land-grabbing threaten to exacerbate cycles of inequality in the countryside, in the city, and around the world.
Read more Vacillation towards migrants
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
The situation of Venezuelan migrants is too serious and urgent to equivocate on good faith and sway with the changing political circumstances of each government.
Read more Que Sea Ley
By María Ximena Dávila |
In spite of the Argentine Senate’s decision, this mobilization showed the force of the feminist movement, destabilized conservative sectors, placed abortion at the center of the legislative debate, and, above all, gave a feeling of victory to women.
Read more 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.
Read more Nanette, the end of stand-up?
By Ana María Ramírez |
I was struck by her message and her innovative and thoughtful way of thinking about comedy.
Read more “Terms and Conditions May Apply”… depending on where you are
By Maria Paula Ángel |
In practice, the Latin American lack of adequate protection manifests itself in the possibility of banks using credit algorithms to decide whether to grant a loan or not, without any intervention by someone with the authority and competence to change the decision.
Read more The New Routinization of Inhumanity: Small Acts of Staggering Consequence
By Claret Vargas |
Perhaps it’s time to state firmly, and insistently, that we see everyone who let themselves be swooped up in machines of inhumanity, and not just the masterminds. And perhaps it’s not too late to call out enough of the small bureaucrats and agents so that they, too, squirm, question and upend the pact of purposeful obtuseness that is required to carry on with systems of oppression designed to harm from a safe distance.
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