Despite Biden’s Victory, Authoritarian Populism Continues to Threaten U.S. Democracy
The Republican Party violates norms which protect democracy more frequently than 85% of other political parties leading democracies around the world. Their lack of commitment to these norms shows that the U.S. political system could be weakened even further if another antidemocratic leader comes to power.
Read MoreInternational Humanitarian Law and Victims of Child Recruitment as Targets of an Attack
An interpretation of the spirit of IHL, manifested in the principles of military necessity and humanity, as well as the IHRL standards applicable to children, should always prohibit the State from causing excessive death or injury. There is nothing more excessive than killing recruited children —vulnerable, discriminated against, and abandoned by the State— in order to gain a military advantage that could have been achieved through other means.
Read MoreLosing 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.
Read MoreWaiting to Advertise: Children and Junk Food
The strategy, then, is simple: companies assure themselves a client for life, without the person even knowing they’re being sold something.
Read MoreSentences for drug traffickers from South America’s Pacific
The harshest sentences are served by transporters who, in most cases, are dispensable actors in the value chain of narco-trafficking, and who are committing the crimes because of the marginalized and impoverished conditions in which they live.
Read MoreThe Sierra, Displaced
I thought about their story, the people and the situations they must have faced. I honored that by feeling the strength of the land and that the stone had witnessed the same. –Tiokasin, Lakota leader
Read MorePrisons: What Force Can’t Do
“Heavy-handed” policies on crime in many countries in the Americas have not only brought prisons to crises around the continent, but have also failed to reduce crime and recidivism. A more humane penitentiary system, not one of terror, seems to be the solution that our continent needs.
Read MoreTwo fights in one: feminism and environmentalism
Only in as much as we coordinate the efforts will we be able to erradicate gender inequality and encounter a solution to the ecological crisis that we are experiencing.
Read MoreThe “Lock Him Up” Paradox
What if we treated criminal prosecution and sentencing as a question of how to rebuild society?
Read MoreThe Vienna Consensus is broken, and we’re not going to fix it
Continuing to strengthen the idea that people who grow, traffic, and use drugs are citizens and human beings like everyone else is the first substantial step in restoring rights to populations who have suffered the harm of prohibition.
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